Elvis Presley's favorite home
In 1957, Elvis Presley was only 22 years old, but he was already earning enough to buy one of the most coveted private homes in America.
Elvis’s parents were the first to spot a beautiful house for sale in Memphis with a large lot. They put down a deposit. Elvis paid the rest.
The house cost just over $100k. That’s about $1.2 million in today’s money. For that amount, they got a 950 m² main house and a 5-hectare lot.
From the outside, it was a classic American mansion with columns and a light-colored, symmetrical facade. But inside, Elvis had transformed the space into a backdrop for his own life.
The main house featured a living room with a grand piano, a dining room, a kitchen, and a suite of bedrooms. The basement housed a TV room and a billiards room. There was a swimming pool in the backyard.
The detached house featured a gym and squash courts. Soon afterward, a Hawaiian-style lounge was added to the house. In “The Jungle,” the walls and ceiling were covered with green pile fabric. The room was furnished with massive, carved Hawaiian-style furniture and whimsical armchairs. A stone fountain gurgled against the wall.
The TV room also looked unusual: blue-and-yellow walls, a mirrored ceiling, a huge sofa, and three TVs. In total, there were fourteen televisions in Elvis’s house.
In the billiard room, not only the walls but also the ceiling were covered with fabric. It took more than 320 meters of fabric to do this. Three people spent ten days hanging the drapery. The result is a room that resembles an oriental tent more than the basement of an American mansion.
Elvis lived in this house for 20 years. And it was here that he died. He was 42 years old.
In 1982, Graceland opened as a museum. Today, the house welcomes 600,000 visitors a year. It ranks second in the U.S. in terms of visitor numbers, behind only the White House.
The second floor of Graceland remains closed to visitors. It housed Elvis’s private bedroom and office.
Such was the unusual estate of the King of Rock and Roll. Green fur on the ceiling. Three TVs in a row. Three hundred meters of colorful fabric in the billiard room. Mirrors, blue velvet, and Hawaiian-style furniture.
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