Graceland
Elvis Presley's Memphis home, kept as he left it, with archive exhibitions across the road.
The Colonial Revival house on Elvis Presley Boulevard was built in 1939 for Ruth and Thomas Moore and named after Ruth's aunt, Grace Toof. Elvis Presley bought it in 1957, aged 22, and lived there until his death in 1977. He remodelled repeatedly, adding the Jungle Room with its green shag carpet and Polynesian furniture, the mirrored television room, the pool room lined with pleated fabric, and the racquetball building. The rooms remain as they were arranged in the 1970s.
Graceland opened to visitors in 1982 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006. The mansion tour is taken with a tablet guide and takes in the ground-floor rooms, the trophy building and the Meditation Garden, where Presley and members of his family are buried; the first floor of the house is not shown. A complex of exhibition halls opposite the gates holds his cars, two aircraft, stage costumes and studio material.
Highlights
- The Jungle Room, panelled and carpeted in the 1970s
- Meditation Garden with the graves of the Presley family
- Trophy building of gold discs, costumes and awards
- Presley's cars and his aircraft the Lisa Marie
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