An aficionado of the 1930s-era American Mafia, Michael Whitehead claims he was born in the wrong era.
And by the look of his two-bedroom loft, located inconspicuously above Overmountain Outdoors on Tipton Street in downtown Johnson City, he is probably right.
Whitehead and the interior design team of Todd Fields and David Mallory recently finished transforming the second-story flat, which previously served as a dental lab, into one of Johnson City’s most extraordinary private-living quarters.
The stairwell at 106 Tipton Street is like a time warp, with the large oak door serving as a portal transporting you back to a 1929 “speakeasy” as soon as you turn its enamel doorknob.