Bill Graham's home sits on a two-acre lot in the Crescent Golf Club in Salisbury.

The Republican gubernatorial candidate bought the land for $335,000 in December of 1998 and began building soon afterward.

The house, finished in 1999, is 12,045 square feet and includes a pool, pool house, elevator and a "mini-Sistine Chapel" ceiling designed by a Charlotte artist in the master suite, according to a Dec. 2, 2000, article in the Salisbury Post.

The Post also nicknamed the house, valued at $5.3 million, "mini-Biltmore," after the Asheville estate built by George Vanderbilt II.

In separate transactions in March 2003 and July 2006, Graham bought the empty lots that back up to his property as well as the ones that line the street leading up to the house. Those properties cost a total of $841,500.