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Graceland Farms was originally owned by Stephen C. Toof, founder of S.C. Toof & Co., the oldest commercial printing firm in Memphis. He worked previously as the pressroom foreman of the Memphis newspaper, the Memphis Daily Appeal. The site (before the mansion was built in 1939) was named after Toof's daughter, Grace.
Just over 55 years ago, Elvis Presley pulled off a rocking purchase for his parents: He bought them a 14-acre Memphis mansion known as "Graceland." The pop-culture icon, who had already bought one ...
The new owners repainted the house from white to a green color similar to the one when Elvis owned it, renovated the fence, and removed the pool. [6] The house is currently not open to the public, [6] but occasionally hosts small VIP events and private music concerts. [11] In April 2017, the house was damaged by fire while undergoing ...
Graceland Cemetery was a 30-acre (120,000 m 2) cemetery located in the Carver Langston neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States.It was founded in 1871 as a privately owned secular cemetery open to the public, but it primarily served the city's African American community.
With Graceland and licensing of her father's image, the business continued to make approximately $40 million a year, but she after a few bad business moves, she sold 85 percent of the stake in ...
Graceland Cemetery is a large historic garden cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road.
BRANSON, Mo. — The search for the mysterious company behind a scheme to steal Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate led last week to a small, quiet city near the Ozark Mountains and the gnome-lined ...
According to Frommer's, Presley himself gave the owners of the chapel permission to use the Graceland name, [1] but in fact it was not renamed until after the singer's death, the same year that Elvis-themed weddings began there. [2] The chapel is a small building, in the New England style, with a white picket fence. It holds 30 people. [1]