The Presley's lived in a boarding house at this location for a couple months at the end of 1952 after they were evicted from the Lauderdale Courts.

After staying here, the family moved to 398 Cypress Ave.

The boarding house at this location has been torn down and it's now an empty lot.

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The Presley family moved to an apartment at 398 Cypress Dr on January 7, 1953 after living at a boarding house at 698 Saffarans Ave, which was after they were evicted from their low-income apartment at Lauderdale Courts.

The family lived here for only a short time, until April of the same year (1953).

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The apartment (#328) can be rented by the night for the hardcore fans.

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In September of 1949, the Presley family (Vern, Gladys, and Elvis) moved to apartment #328 of the Lauderdale Courts, a low-income housing project in downtown Memphis. The family paid $35.00 a month in rent.

The shy and reticent Elvis would practice guitar in the basement laundry room, meet and play with other musicians in the Courts, listen to records at the Poplar Tunes record store around the corner, and walk down to nearby Beale Street to receive inspiration.

The Presley family lived at the location until 1952 when they were evicted for exceeding the maximum monthly income for residents. After the eviction, the Presley's moved to a boarding house near the Courts at 698 Saffarans Ave for a couple of months.

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The Parchman Penitentiary, also known as the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP) or more informally the Parchman Farm, is the oldest prison in Mississippi.

In 1933, Alan Lomax and his brother John went to the prison to record prison work songs. Speaking of the people he met and the material he archived, "These people were poetic and musical and they had something terribly important to say."

On June 1, 1938, Elvis's father, Vernon Presley, was imprisoned for forgery in the Parchman Penitentiary.

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