Elvis has left the building, but maybe you don’t have to.
Elvis Presley’s childhood home in Tupelo, Mississippi, which was left abandoned and at one point expected to be demolished, is set to go up for auction in August, The Post has reported.
This is the only childhood home of the King of Rock and Roll to ever come to market.
The initial auction price will be set between $30,000 and $50,000.
The three-bedroom, 1,260-square-foot house, which once had 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.
The address later changed to 1241 Kelly St. and it was where Elvis and his parents, Vernon and Gladys Presley, lived from 1943 to 1944. The residence was just around the corner from the house in which Elvis was born.
The Presleys moved several times during Elvis’s childhood, residing in various houses in East Tupelo before the city was annexed as part of Tupelo in 1946.
After living with various relatives around East Tupelo and Tupelo, including another relative at another address on Kelly Street, the Presleys moved into the blue-painted house.
“The house itself has been meticulously dismantled and disassembled, so it can be put back together. It is being stored in a trailer”, Jeff Marren, Owner Rockhurst Auctions, he told The Post. The company is scheduled to hold the auction on August 14 in Memphis. during the city’s Elvis Week 2022 celebration.
“So when someone buys the house, they’ll get the full trailer and the designs to put it back together,” Marren said of the project. “Whoever buys it can hire the person who disassembled it to put it back together.
“Then they can move it wherever they want,” he added.
The house is currently in storage in Mississippi, and only the original parts of the house that existed when the Presleys lived there were preserved, according to Marren.
Dubbed the “Elvis Presley Boulevard Auction,” the sale of his childhood home isn’t the only item on the auction block. There will be 100 lots of “Elvis’s finest artifacts,” according to Marren, including items from the iconic singer’s life and career such as clothing, jewelry, autographs and concert memorabilia.
The house was painstakingly disassembled in 2017 under the supervision of Elvis experts Chris Davidson and Stephen Shutts. Marren called its sale “an unprecedented opportunity,” though it has its challenges.
“It’s a bit of a strange object because only certain people can use it. They need a large property. They would have to invest to move it,” Marren said. “Most of the things I sell are individual items that you can hold in your hand.”
Davidson and Shutts oversaw the project and noted that key features of the house were constantly being uncovered as their team peeled back the layers. The disassembled elements of the house have been safely stored in a 30-foot American Hauler Night Hawk trailer, which is also included with the purchase of the house.
“The house was originally going to be leveled. The property was going to be sold for commercial purposes, so a couple of collectors got together and bought the structure and sought to have it preserved,” Marren revealed.
“I don’t know anyone else who was going to keep the house, and the land was going to be used for some other purpose, for a parking lot, for storage or something,” he added.
Meanwhile, Presley’s birthplace in Tupelo remains a historic museum site open to the public, along with Graceland, his longtime home in Memphis, Tennessee, where he lived with his parents throughout his life as his career took off. was shooting
The auction comes immediately after the release of Baz Luhrman’s biopic “Elvis” which hit theaters on Friday, June 26. Austin Butler in the leading role that turns the hip, opening weekend numbers show film grossing about $31.2 million — winning first place and beating “Top Gun: Maverick”.
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