The Chicago home of chef Charlie Trotter, the late award-winning culinary mastermind, has sold for $2.47 million, according to several news reports.
Trotter's wife, Rochelle Trotter, listed the residence last month with a $2.65 million price tag. While the home has sold within a month's time, it did so for a little under the asking price, reports The Chicago Tribune.
Trotter and his wife lived in the home for about eight years. His famous restaurant, which closed in 2012, operated a few blocks away from the building.
Trotter passed away from a stroke in November 2013. His death sent shock ripples across the nation's culinary community. In his will, Trotter asserted that his wife carry out his plans of building an institute of learning and library in his name, reports DNA Info.
Talking about accomplishing his demands, Rochelle told the publication that the library and the learning center "need not be stand-alone buildings." She also revealed then that she would be selling the property and moving soon.
"Charles made a decision after 25 years to move on from those buildings. If he wanted this to manifest itself there, he wouldn't have put them up for sale," she said.
The Trotters purchased the home in 2007 for $2.69 million.
Listing records at Redfin state that the residence is a detached, single-family, three-level home spanning an area of 5,200 square feet. Comprised of five bedrooms, four full and one half bathrooms, the house has high ceilings, hardwood flooring and glass doors.
Living spaces include a formal drawing room, a large dining area, a family room, a recreation room, an exercise room and a media room. The property also offers a large patio, outdoor grills, basement rooms, a laundry, a chef's kitchen (of course) and a roof deck. A three-car parking garage is also available on the property.
Trotter pulled the shutters on his Lincoln Park restaurant not because of financial issues but because he wanted to do something different.
"...There are so many other things to do in life. Twenty-five years in this line of work is fantastic. It's just time to step back, breathe deeply and do something different," he told the New York Times in an interview.
