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MONTREAT – The first home world-famous evangelist Billy Graham owned in this small, secluded eastern Buncombe County town is now on the red-hot real estate market.

The four-bedroom, two-bath home, where Billy and Ruth Graham raised their five children for nearly two decades, is listed for sale at $599,000.

The Grahams' daughter, Ruth Bell Graham, has put the 2,564-square-foot home on the market through Premier Sotheby’s International Realty.

A press release states Billy and Ruth Graham bought the home in the late 1940s.

"It was selected because it was right across the street from my grandparents,” Ruth Bell Graham, their daughter, said in the release.

“I was born during the time my family lived in the house. The Los Angeles Crusades and (my father’s) tour of England happened during those years. It is where it all began.”

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