Presley's neighbors, most of whom were happy to have a celebrity living nearby, soon came to find the constant gathering of fans and journalists a nuisance. As his fame grew, especially after his appearances on television, the number of fans that would congregate outside the house multiplied. Īfter Elvis Presley began his musical career, he purchased a $40,000 home for himself and his family at 1034 Audubon Drive in Memphis. The house was designed by architects Furbringer and Ehrman. After her death, the property was passed down to her niece Ruth Moore, a Memphis socialite, who together with her husband, Thomas Moore, built a 10,266-square-foot (953.7 m 2) Colonial Revival style mansion in 1939. She inherited the farm/grounds from her father in 1894. The "grounds" (before the mansion home was built in 1939) was named after Toof's daughter, Grace. Toof & Co., the oldest commercial printing firm in Memphis, who was previously the pressroom foreman of the Memphis newspaper, the Memphis Daily Appeal.
Graceland Farms was originally owned by Stephen C.
The site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1991, becoming the first site related to rock and roll to be entered therein. It was opened to the public as a museum on June 7, 1982.
Graceland is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard in the Whitehaven neighborhood, about nine miles (14 kilometers) south of central Memphis and fewer than four miles (6.4 km) north of the Mississippi border. His daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, inherited Graceland after his death in 1977. Graceland is a mansion on a 13.8-acre (5.6-hectare) estate in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, once owned by singer and actor Elvis Presley.