Elvis Presley’s childhood home in Tupelo, Mississippi — which was left abandoned and, at one point, was expected to be torn down — is set to hit the auction block in August.
This is the only childhood home of the King of Rock and Roll that has ever come to market. The starting auction price will be set between $30,000 to $50,000.
The three-bedroom, 1,260-square-foot home, which once held the address 605 Kelly Street in East Tupelo, first went up for auction in 2020. But despite having interested parties, due to the timing of the raging coronavirus pandemic, it was unable to score any buyers.
Later the address changed to 1241 Kelly St. and was where Elvis and his parents, Vernon and Gladys Presley, lived from 1943 to 1944. The residence was just around the corner from the home in which Elvis was born.
Meanwhile, Presley’s birth home in Tupelo remains a historic museum site open to the public, along with Graceland - his longtime home in Memphis, Tennessee, that he lived in with his parents throughout his life as his career skyrocketed.
“The house itself has been dismantled and taken apart meticulously, so it can be put back together. It is being stored in a trailer,” Jeff Marren, owner Rockhurst Auctions said. The company is set to hold the auction on Aug. 14 down in Memphis during the city’s Elvis Week 2022 celebration.
“So when someone buys the house, they’re going to get the whole trailer and the designs for putting back together,” Marren said of the project. “Whoever buys it can actually hire the person who took it apart to put it back together for them. “They can then move it where ever they’d like to,” he added.
Currently the house is stored in Mississippi, and only the original parts of the home that existed when the Presleys lived there were kept, according to Marren.
Personally, I've had just about all the Elvis I need for this lifetime and maybe a couple more. Juss' sayin'...
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My mother was all about Elvis & over the years she got everything she could find to do with him, albums, pictures, movies, books, a bit of hair & those damn plates that hang on the wall & when she died I inherited all 10 boxes of the stuff. Guess I should get it out & see about getting rid of it to someone that would appreciate it. I've carried it around for 10yrs too long.
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