Graceland is welcoming a further angel.
Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis Presley will be laid to rest at the singer’s iconic mansion on Jan. 22, 10 days immediately after she handed away at the age of 54. Ahead of her burial, the grounds of the superstar’s Memphis home will be opened for a public memorial service honoring the singer-songwriter and mother of four, a consultant for her eldest daughter Riley Keough confirmed to E! News, noting that she, 14-year-aged sisters Harper and Finley Lockwood and Lisa Marie’s mom Priscilla Presley “are grateful for the assistance, properly-needs and outpouring of love honoring their beloved Lisa Marie.”
Subsequent Elvis’ demise in 1977 at the age of 42 and his father Vernon Presley’s passing in 1982, Priscilla designed a related choice to open Graceland to the community, turning the house into a place for supporters of the King of Rock ‘N’ Roll. The 14-acre grounds provide as the remaining resting spot for Elvis, who died of a coronary heart assault at his beloved household, his mother and father Vernon and Gladys Presley, and Lisa Marie’s son Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020 at age 27.
Raymond Boyd/Getty Photographs Graceland, house of the late Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee on Oct 3, 2016.
The conclusion to allow for the public to visit Graceland stemmed from the large estate and inheritance taxes Elvis’ loved ones ended up struggling with following his loss of life, with Priscilla in the end building the final decision not to promote the property.
“I recognized as it was heading on that there really was not any revenue that could guidance Graceland or any of the persons that labored for Elvis that were nevertheless there,” Priscilla told “Billboard” in 2012. “I had decision to make to someway help you save Graceland.”
40 several years afterwards, Graceland has been visited by more than 23 million people today and was declared a Nationwide Historic Landmark in 2006. Ahead of Lisa Marie’s memorial, go inside the iconic estate and learn some info about a person of the world’s most-visited houses:
Elvis Presley was just 22 a long time previous when he bought his Graceland home in Memphis, Tenn., on March, 25, 1957. The singer paid out $102,500 for the home, which now had its famous moniker. The home’s earlier owners Dr. Thomas Moore and his wife Ruth named the mansion right after Ruth’s aunt, Grace Toof, when they create the Colonial Revival type property in 1939.
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Rock and roll singer Elvis Presley strolls the grounds of his Graceland estate in circa 1957.
Sadly, the legend died of a coronary heart assault at Graceland on Aug. 16, 1977, when he was only 42.
In the wake of Lisa Marie Presley’s demise at age 54 on Jan. 12, Graceland will be inherited by her three daughters—Riley Keough and Harper and Finley Lockwood—a representative for Graceland confirmed to E! News.
Lisa Marie took finish possession of the household when she turned 25 in February 1993. Graceland will also serve as the spot for Lisa Marie’s remaining resting place, a rep for Riley verified to E! News. She will be buried along with her father and her son, Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020 at age 27.
Graceland welcomes above 600,000 website visitors just about every yr and is the most renowned residence in The usa soon after The White Home. It was named to the American National Register of Historic Areas in 1991.
The residence features ticketed visits for guests to see Presley’s jumpsuits and classic vehicle assortment, as effectively as his personal house, Vernon Presley’s business workplace, Presley’s trophy developing, his racquetball middle and the meditation backyard garden, the place the King of Rock and Roll was laid to relaxation.
GAB Archive/Redferns by way of Getty Illustrations or photos Inside see of Elvis Presley’s house Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 2nd July 2018.
When Presley first obtain the house it was 10,266 square toes. Nowadays, it is now expanded to 17,552 sq. ft on 13.8 acres of land.
When the “Jailhouse Rock” singer was at the home, the weekly grocery monthly bill was around $500, according to David Adler’s ebook, “The Everyday living and Cuisine of Elvis Presley.” The certain merchandise to be saved in the Graceland kitchen at all times involved a scenario of Pepsi, steak, hamburger buns, cans of sauerkraut, wieners, at least six cans of biscuits, brownies, banana pudding, lean bacon, mustard, ice cream, fudge cookies, brownies, and assorted fresh fruit.
In addition to five staircases and three fireplaces, the household also has a billIards home and a lair that Presley referred to as “The Den”. Complete with a waterfall, wood walls, a grass shag carpet and plastic foliage, fans commenced contacting it “the Jungle Home” when Graceland was opened to general public visitors in 1982.
Mario Tama/Gettty Photographs Elvis Presley’s residing area at Graceland is witnessed in the course of Elvis 7 days on August 12, 2002, in Memphis, Tennessee.
According to Rolling Stone, Presley turned the oasis into a temporary studio to report 16 music that have been introduced on 1976’s “Elvis Presley Boulevard”, “Memphis”, “Tennessee”, and 1977’s “Moody Blue.”
The official Elvis Instagram account revealed that the Heartbreak Lodge actor was “a substantial Tv set junkie” and “basically had 14 Tv set screens established up all around the Graceland mansion.”
Photos Ltd./Corbis via Getty Photos Elvis’s collection of greatest advertising documents hangs in a corridor at Graceland, his house when he was alive and now a museum committed to all points Elvis.
His programming of preference? “He loved to observe football,” the caption read through, “and key-time favorites like “Chuckle-In”, “The Untouchables”, “The Tonight Exhibit” and The “Match Sport.”
Nevertheless Presley and Priscilla Presley divorced in 1973, she turned a co-executor of Graceland after the 1979 loss of life of the singer’s father, Vernon Presley. She has been instrumental in preserving the estate up and operating as a vacationer place and her ex one particular of the maximum-earning deceased stars of all time.
