Something for everyone on this tour
[Times photo: Bill Serne ]
The “contemporary manor” once owned by major-league baseball player Gary Sheffield sits on three acres, including a private beach.
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By Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times
published February 22, 2003
The tour: St. Petersburg Catholic High School's fourth annual Tour of Homes.
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 1.
Where: Nine homes, from Pinellas Point to Snell Isle to Allendale to Bay Pines.
Tickets: $15, available now and on tour day at Artistic Flowers, 3247 Fourth St. N and 3525 49th St. N; Jene's Tropicals, 6831 Central Ave.; Gulf Coast Garden Center, 4355 Haines Road; and Diamonds Direct, 5085 34th St. S, all in St. Petersburg, and at Georgette's Old Hyde Park Village, 1619 W Snow Circle in Tampa.
The homes: This popular tour has an eclectic group this year. A 1926 home in Allendale is decorated with one owner's handmade lamps, created from cake covers, colanders and trays, among other items. The other owner plays with the California surf band Papa Doo Run Run, which played backup for the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean, and his guitar collection is on display. (Details and pictures of the group at www.papadoorunrun.com.)
Waterfront mansions on Snell Isle and Snell Isle Estates offer sweeping views of Tampa Bay. There's a 1930s Tudor turned bungalow in Crescent Heights; a pink-and-white Florida home in Carriage Bay in the Bay Pines area; a contemporary condo on North Shore Drive; a "glass house" with a 30-foot solarium foyer overlooking the Sunshine Skyway Bridge; and a home on Pinellas Point designed in the bohemian style with lots of small rooms and a mazelike arrangement of curves and corners.
The big attention-getter will no doubt be the estate once owned by Atlanta Braves outfielder Gary Sheffield. This 11,000-square-foot "contemporary manor," which sold last summer for $2.8-million, has seven bedrooms, 51/2 baths and marble floors and staircases, on three acres with a private beach. It includes a home theater, sauna, tanning bed and aquatherapy room, a separate floor of closets, a custom meat locker and a wine cooler.
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