While Elvis Presley owned one of the most famous homes in America—Graceland—the singer, actor, and icon rarely stayed in one place for long. The Presley family moved many times throughout the singer’s childhood, and he was able to finally put down roots in 1957 when he bought his legendary Memphis home. But even with his beloved Graceland as a home base, Presley added to his list of addresses, buying or renting homes in Germany, Palm Springs, and several neighborhoods in Los Angeles. From his humble beginnings in a two-room home in Tupelo, Mississippi, to a sprawling Wallace Neff–designed Bel Air mansion once home to Howard Hughes to the Jungle Room at Graceland, Elvis Presley spent his life in memorable surroundings. Below are some of the notable residences the King called home.
Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935, in a small two-room home in Tupelo, Mississippi. The little white house was built by Presley’s father, Vernon, with help from his grandfather and uncle. The family only lived in the home for three years before it was repossessed and they were forced to move. The city of Tupelo bought the house and surrounding land in 1957, and today the property is a historical site that is also home to the singer’s childhood church and a museum.
Presley’s family lived in Tupelo until he was 13 years old, at which point they moved to Memphis. After briefly living in homes on Washington Street and Poplar Avenue, the family moved into an apartment in Lauderdale Courts in 1949 and stayed there until 1953. The Georgian Revival–style complex was built in 1936 and was one of the first federal housing projects in the United States. The Presleys lived there until 1953, and the apartment is available for overnight stays and open for tours during the singer’s birth and death weeks each year.
In 1956, Presley and his parents purchased 1034 Audubon Drive in Memphis using the royalties from “Heartbreak Hotel.” The $29,500 ranch-style house was set in Audubon Park, an area east of Memphis, and had four bedrooms and two and a half baths. During the year he lived in the home, Presley installed a pool and, once his popularity skyrocketed, a fence.
Presley bought his most famous residence, Graceland, in 1957. The Colonial Revival–style mansion was built in 1939 by Thomas and Ruth Moore, who hired Memphis architecture firm Furbringer and Ehrman to design the residence. The acreage had been owned by Ruth Moore’s ancestors, the Toof family, who named it Graceland. Presley paid $102,500 for the property (or about $1.1 million today).
Presley made the estate his own, installing a kidney-shaped pool and the iconic musical note-decorated gates. Inside, the singer gravitated toward dramatic decor. Designer Bill Eubanks is responsible for the tented pool room and the TV room with its mirrored ceiling, yellow shag carpet, and three televisions. Presley added the den, also known as the Jungle Room, in the 1960s. Originally a screened porch, the space was enclosed and given a Hawaiian-inspired design complete with a waterfall. The singer later used the space as a recording studio. Presley is buried on the property.
Presley lived at Goethestrasse 14 in Bad Nauheim, Germany, from 1959 to 1960, while serving in the military. He met his future wife—Priscilla, who was the stepdaughter of a US Air Force captain—at the three-story, white stucco house in September of 1959.
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Presley rented a Palm Springs home, dubbed the “House of Tomorrow,” for a year, starting in 1966, and he honeymooned with his bride there in 1967 following their Las Vegas wedding. The house at 1350 Ladera Circle was designed by modernist architect William Krisel, and the striking 4,695-square-foot residence features curved rock-lined walls; a bat-wing roof; a sunken living room, and a pentagon-shaped pool. The home sold for $5.65 million in 2022.
Presley rented a modern house on Perugia Way twice during the 1960s. The semicircular home looked out onto the Bel Air Country club and had a large motor court in front. On August 27, 1965, the Perugia Way house was the site of the King’s historic meeting with The Beatles, which included a jam session with the King and the Fab Four. The home was demolished in the late 1980s.
Between stays at Perugia Way, Presley lived in a mansion at 10539 Bellagio Road in Bel Air. Famed California architect Wallace Neff built the home in 1932 for film producer Sol Wurtzel and took inspiration from Villa Giulia, the estate of Pope Julius III in Rome. The Italian Renaissance–style residence also played home to Howard Hughes, Prince Rainier of Monaco, and occult writer Anthony Norvell over the years.
Presley purchased a home in the Trousdale Estates section of Beverly Hills for $400,000 in 1967. The house was designed in 1958 by architect Rex Lotery and mixes modernism and French Regency style. The home was nearly demolished in 2012 by then-owner and Hard Rock Café founder Peter Morton, but the plan was scrapped after public outcry.
In 1970, the singer bought a home in Beverly Hills at 144 Monovale Drive, which he shared with his wife and their daughter, Lisa Marie. The 1930s New England–style home was updated by the couple, who renovated the kitchen and second-floor bath, and added French doors to the living room. Most recently, the home sold for $20 million in 2020, with an adjoining parcel of land selling for an additional $9.3 million.
Previously owned by McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc, Presley’s home on West Chino Canyon Road in Palm Springs, was designed by legendary architect Albert Frey, also known as the father of Desert Modernism. Frey designed the Spanish Colonial house in 1946, and the singer bought the four-bedroom home in 1970. After Presley’s death, Four Seasons singer Frankie Valli purchased the home.
