Lisa Marie Shared That There’s A Room In Graceland No One Else Knows About

Step into the one-time home of “The King of Rock and Roll,” Elvis Presley, and you can almost feel his presence. You can take a trip into Graceland, which operates as a museum, but you’ll have to stay away from the upper floor. That’s the private part of the home. But Elvis’s daughter Lisa Marie has shared a secret about that floor of the house, revealing that deep within the sprawling mansion is a hidden room that no one knows about. And what it contains is truly extraordinary.

History Of Graceland

Elvis lived in Graceland for two decades, and during that time turned the mansion and the near-14 acres of Memphis, Tennessee, land it sat on into the base of operations for his empire. The land was previously owned by generations of the Toof family, who ran Memphis’s first commercial printing business. Intriguingly, it is from their family history that the name “Graceland” originated, not Elvis’s.

Musical Heritage

The mansion was named after one of the Toof family relatives. You see, in 1939, Ruth Brown Moore and her husband Dr Thomas Moore were the ones who built the home and they named it after her aunt Grace. Fittingly, music had a part to play in Graceland before Elvis ever came along, thanks to the Moore’s daughter Ruth Marie.

Adding On

A harpist with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Ruth Marie was known to rehearse in the mansion’s formal rooms. Perhaps Elvis could sense this when he was being shown Graceland, as he would fill those same rooms with rock and roll jam sessions after he took ownership of the property. Over the years, he would increase the size of the home from 10,000 square feet to 17,000.

Taking Ownership

Elvis became part of Graceland’s history in 1957. He had already released two albums and 48 singles by that point and was finishing work on his second film, Loving You, at the same time as recording its soundtrack album. He had also been touring almost without a break for two long years before ’57.