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Elvis Presley’s Graceland is the most famous musical home in the Mid-South, but it’s far from alone. Presley’s first home in Tupelo, Miss., has become a museum, while Presley’s first adult home, in East Memphis, hosts events. And blues pianist Memphis Slim’s house has been converted into a kind of musical community center.
But now, another famed musical abode, once thought a candidate for similar preservation, could soon be demolished.
A Shelby County Environmental Court order on Thursday put the deteriorating birth home of soul queen Aretha Franklin into a city receivership with an order to “abate nuisance through demolition.”
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