It was opened to the public as a museum on June 7, 1982. The site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1991, becoming the first site related to rock and roll to be entered therein. Graceland was declared a National Historic Landmark on March 27, 2006, also a first for such a site. Graceland is the second most-visited house in the U.S. after the White House, with over 650,000 visitors a year, making it the most-visited privately owned home in America.