Editing Graceland (section)

== Estate ==
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[[File:Memphis TN Graceland gates snow.jpg|thumb|Music-themed gate]]
After purchasing the property Presley spent in excess of $500,000 carrying out extensive modifications to suit his needs including a pink Alabama [[fieldstone]] wall surrounding the grounds that has several years' worth of graffiti (signatures and messages) from visitors, who simply refer to it as "the wall".<ref>Daniel Wright, ''Dear Elvis: Graffiti from Graceland'' (1996), p.16.</ref> Designed and built by Abe Sauer is the wrought-iron front gate shaped like a book of sheet music, along with green colored musical notes and two mirrored silhouettes of Elvis playing his guitar. Sauer also installed a kidney shaped swimming pool and a racquetball court, which is reminiscent of an old country club, furnished in dark leather and a functional bar. There is a sunken sitting area with the ever-present stereo system found throughout Graceland, as well as the dark brown upright piano upon which Elvis played for what were to be his last songs, [[Willie Nelson]]'s "[[Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain]]" and "[[Unchained Melody]]".

However, reports conflict about which one was the last song. The sitting area has a floor-to-ceiling shatterproof window designed to watch the many racquetball games that took place there when Elvis was alive. In the early hours of the morning on which Elvis died, he played a game of racquetball with his girlfriend Ginger Alden, his first cousin Billy Smith and Billy's wife Jo before ending the game with the song on the piano before walking into the main house to wash his hair and go to bed. Today the two story court has been restored to the way it was when Elvis used the building.<ref name=":0" />

Elsewhere on the estate is a small white building that served as an office for Vernon, along with an old smokehouse that housed a shooting range and a fully functional stable of horses.

One of Presley's better known modifications was the addition of the Meditation Garden, designed and built by architect Bernard Grenadier. It was used by the musician to reflect on any problems or situations that arose during his life. It is also where his entire family is buried: himself (1935–1977), his parents Gladys (1912–1958) and Vernon (1916–1979), and grandmother Minnie Mae Hood (1890–1980) while a small stone memorializes his twin brother Jesse Garon, who died at birth thirty minutes before Elvis was born on January 8, 1935. In late 2020, Lisa Marie's son [[Benjamin Keough]] was laid to rest on the opposite end of the Meditation Garden after his death from suicide in July of that year.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Beifuss |first1=John |title=Benjamin Keough, Elvis' grandson, interred at Graceland |url=https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2020/10/02/elvis-presley-grandson-benjamin-keough-buried-graceland-memphis-lisa-marie-presley/5894141002/ |access-date=July 20, 2022 |work=The Commercial Appeal |date=October 2, 2010}}</ref> Lisa Marie Presley died from sudden cardiac arrest in January 2023 and is buried next to her son.<ref name="latimes.com">{{Cite web |date=January 14, 2023 |title=Lisa Marie Presley leaves behind a lucrative Graceland — and a complicated financial legacy |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-01-14/lisa-marie-presley-graceland-financial-legacy-elvis |access-date=January 16, 2023 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>