Jennifer Gould

Julia Child, arguably America’s first celebrity chef, was a US intelligence official working for the OSS during WWII in China and Sri Lanka before she moved to France, discovered its cuisine and introduced it to American home chefs upon her return to the U.S. Now her former home of four decades — a late-19th-century residence just blocks from Harvard Yard — is on the market for $6.47 million.

Child’s world-famous home kitchen was preserved and now stands in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. But this updated home still has her stamp — including her plantings in the irrigated, landscaped garden and Floribunda roses, brokers tell Gimme Shelter. Today’s #gimmeshelter in the New York Post. #juliachild 📸: Corbis via Getty Images; River Harte, Drone Home Media; and The Washington Post via Getty Images