When you build something on the bank of the lower Mississippi River, you do so at your peril.
This house, sort of a "weekend getaway" owned by a prominent Memphis attorney, sits on the Arkansas side a mile or so above the Hernando DeSoto Bridge. While the city of Memphis sits on a bluff, the Arkansas side consists of low-lying floodplain, and I expect this lot was built up with fill dirt.
The house has a breathtaking view of the river with the downtown Memphis skyline in the distance. And yet, I'm very glad I don't own the place, for unless some extensive and expensive bank stabilization gets done this house is not long for this world. There's a reason that most of the lower Mississippi River is surrounded by miles of uninhabited and undeveloped bottomland.
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