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A house on Graceland Farm
The land was once Graceland Farms, owned by Stephen C. Toof and named after his daughter Grace, who inherited it in 1894. In 1939 her niece Ruth Moore and Ruth’s husband, Thomas, built the house that stands today: a Colonial Revival mansion designed by the architects Furbringer and Ehrman.
The home of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley bought Graceland on 19 March 1957 for $102,500. Over the next two decades he reshaped it with a pink Alabama fieldstone wall, a music-themed gate, a pool, the Jungle Room den and, later, the Meditation Garden. He died at Graceland on 16 August 1977 and is buried in the Meditation Garden with his parents, Gladys and Vernon, and his grandmother, Minnie Mae.
A house museum and a landmark
Graceland opened to the public as a house museum on 7 June 1982. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 7 November 1991, the first site recognised there for its significance to rock music, and was designated a National Historic Landmark on 27 March 2006. Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis’s daughter, was buried in the Meditation Garden in 2023.
