Tillies Antiques occupies the former Nature’s Pantry building at 2909 North White Sands Boulevard in Alamogordo, New Mexico, a storefront that carries forward a family business first opened in the early 1980s by Bill and Alice Tillotson. After the original shop closed, their son Kim Tillotson revived the name at this new location, bringing back a version of the store built around the same specialty his parents were known for: American antique oak furniture from the early 1900s. Dressers, tables, cabinets, and case pieces from that period make up the backbone of the inventory, joined by antique clocks, stoneware crocks and jugs, and a rotating assortment of other period items that come through consignment and estate purchases.
The shop keeps a compact but dependable schedule, open Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Thursday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. Alamogordo sits in the Tularosa Basin of south-central New Mexico, within reach of Cloudcraft and the Sacramento Mountains, and Tillies Antiques has built part of its customer base around exactly that geography: shoppers furnishing mountain cabins and second homes in the nearby high country regularly come through looking for sturdy, well-made oak pieces that suit a rustic or vintage cabin aesthetic, and stoneware and case goods travel well for that kind of use.
Beyond straightforward retail, the store offers services aimed at people managing a life transition rather than simply decorating a room. Consignment arrangements let local sellers place furniture and antiques in the shop rather than handling a private sale themselves, layaway options let buyers commit to a larger piece of oak furniture without paying the full price up front, and the shop assists with estate purchases for families working through a downsizing move or settling an estate. That combination of retail floor and practical services reflects the shop’s roots as a longtime community fixture rather than a purely transactional antique mall booth.
What distinguishes Tillies from many antique shops that trade in a broad mix of decorative smalls is its narrower, more specific focus on genuine period oak furniture alongside clocks and stoneware, a specialty that traces directly back to what Bill and Alice Tillotson built the original store around more than four decades ago. Reopening the business under the family name, in a new building but with the same core specialty, gives the shop a continuity that is unusual for a small-town antique store that had gone dark and come back. Regular visitors and first-time browsers driving along White Sands Boulevard can expect a shop that leans into that heritage rather than reinventing itself as a general vintage boutique, which makes it a useful stop specifically for buyers hunting authentic oak furniture, working clocks, or stoneware rather than a broad grab bag of collectibles.
For anyone planning a visit, calling ahead at 575-551-1834 is worthwhile given the shop’s limited weekly hours, particularly since estate purchase and consignment conversations often take more time than a quick walk-through. Tillies Antiques in Alamogordo is a family-run oak furniture, clock, and stoneware shop reopened by the founders’ son, offering consignment, layaway, and estate-purchase services to the Tularosa Basin community.
