FEATURED — VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: The ‘Elvis’ House Never Housed the King
The domiciliate at 2520 Castlesands Way is currently turned the market. But its Redfin pageboy promotes the careen n’ roam bona fides that local Las Vegas kids get told apiece other virtually the domicile for generations.
“The Elvis House was originally built by the International Hotel,” it reads, “as a private and very scoop hideaway for various headliners who were performing inwards Las Vegas such as Elvis Presley, James Dean Martin, and Marilyn Monroe, and a host of other famous, infamous, and orphic persons of note.”
Except that it’s most definitely not the Elvis house. The B. B. King never stayed there. Not once. He ne'er still toured the joint, at to the lowest degree not according to Jerry Schilling, a card-carrying member of Presley’s “Memphis Mafia” entourage, whom this newsman got a chance to interview well-nigh it 13 years ago.
Built in 1954 as a secluded holding near Eastern and Twain avenues — the outskirts of Vegas at the time — the “Elvis” put up is 3,300 square up feet of mid-century modern. It features slating tile, glaze cube windows, lava-rock walls, a spiral staircase, and a waterfall bathtub.
In 1962, the put up was sold to a companion with ties to casino developer Kirk Kerkorian, who opened the International Hotel inwards 1969 with Elvis as its indorse headliner (after Barbra Streisand). Kerkorian offered the domiciliate to any of his headliners who wanted it, but he also offered Elvis a prime(a) he did not spring to every headliner: stay on at either the domiciliate or the penthouse of the International whenever you headline.
Baby, Let’s Not Play House
Once Kerkorian toured Elvis around the 5,000 square-foot spreading inward the 30-floor Imperial Suite, his pick was permanently made, according to Schilling. (For a list of all the real real estate associated with Elvis’ Las Vegas years, tick come out “The Buildings Elvis Elvis Aron Presley Left inwards Las Vegas.”)
As for Redfin’s exact that Dino and Marilyn also stayed in the “Elvis” house, it’s certainly possible but also suspect. Neither ever headlined the International, and both had plentifulness of opportunities to detain elsewhere when they came to town.
In 1974, fiddler Joe Macchiaverna reportedly bought the domiciliate for $50K at a foreclosure auction. In the late 1980s, he subdivided the soil surrounding the home, which gave nascency to the neighbourhood currently enveloping it.
A tertiary owner, Michael Michaels, reportedly impersonated Elvis — either for a living or a hobby, it’s unclear — and this is most as tight as the house of all time came to having the existent Elvis remain inward it.
Lore also has some Middle Eastern renters, later turning it into a brothel. That’s to a greater extent believable, but certainly no more marketing pointedness for a home.
Money Honey
Of course, when it comes to tangible estate sales, myths render into commissions far more often than truths do. And if you say the Redfin description carefully, it doesn’t actually exact that Elvis ever so stayed thither — it just sounds similar it does.
The put up in conclusion sold for $825K on Mar 31, 2022. Hopefully, that cut-rate sale price was based on how skillful it was and non how historic.
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