Anderson Cooper turned a 1906 New York firehouse into his home

When Anderson Cooper bought a historic former fire patrol house in New York’s Greenwich Village for $4.3 million in 2010, the purchase raised concerns among local preservationists, according to contemporary reporting by DNAinfo and the Village Preservation Society. The four-storey building at 84 West 3rd Street had spent decades as a working Fire Patrol station, and its history was tied not only to New York’s firefighting past but also to one of the city’s most painful chapters: the September 11 attacks. Today, the 8,240-sq-ft property has been transformed into Cooper’s private home. Yet its historic identity has not disappeared. Cooper restored the building’s distinctive exterior, while elements of the former fire patrol house, including its original fire poles, were retained inside.