2436 W. Greenleaf Avenue
Apartment #2
Published in 2010 Annual House Tour book, pages 8-9.
Linda Gates and George Tiller are the third residents of this light-filled, three-bedroom apartment overlooking Indian Boundary Park. They bought the apartment in 2003 from a real-estate agent who had purchased it from the original owner, Mrs. Stahl. The realtor made many upgrades while preserving the integrity of the apartment.
The charming apartment contains many books, paintings, prints, and objects d'art collected by Ms. Gates during her career in the theater, including some fine examples of outsider art by Southern artists. The antique cypress cabinet in the dining room was rescued from being chopped up for kindling by Ms. Gates' mother, and was restored by her father, who also made the dining table and sideboard from fallen cypress logs from the Louisiana swamps. The beveled windows in the dining room, which were made in the Indian Boundary Park field house, were once covered with mirrors. In the living room, Linda and George installed a gas fireplace graced by a mantle copied from an English country home.
Outside the back door is a painting of gondolas that belonged to the apartment's original owner, Mrs. Stahl, who loved Venice. It recalls the gondola that once plied the lagoon in front of the building.
