Graceland

It turned out that Vernon Presley didn't ever have to approach the neighbors with Elvis's counteroffer. While Elvis had been in Los Angeles in March of 1957 filming Loving You, Mr. and Mrs. Presley had looked at an estate off of Highway 51 South in Whitehaven, close to the Tennessee-Mississippi border. It was nearly fourteen acres of wooded land around a beautiful brick mansion. The place was empty and needed a lot of work, but the Presleys felt it would make a perfect, private home for the family. Elvis hadn't seen it yet, but the beauty and peace and quiet of the estate was captured in its name: GRACELAND.