Anderson Cooper's House

CNN anchor who has fronted his own nightly news hour since 2003 and reports for 60 Minutes. He is the son of the designer and railroad heiress Gloria Vanderbilt.

Franklin Baylies designed the red brick and terra cotta station in the Beaux-Arts style for the New York Board of Fire Underwriters. City land-use records date it to 1906, and the landmarks database to 1907.

Patrolman Keith Roma served here for 5 years before he died at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Bronze plaques honored him and patrolmen killed in Chelsea and Soho fires in the 1940s and ’50s.

The Underwriters disbanded their patrol in 2006 and sold the station to Cooper, with the deed dated September 2009 in city records. Most accounts say 2010, the year the sale became public.

Cary Tamarkin, the architect hired to make it Cooper’s home, promised in 2010 to keep “the spirit, the soul and the memory of the firehouse.” His other pledge: “There will be plenty of fire poles.”

In 2015 David Beckham and Kevin Hart filmed an H&M ad here as mismatched roommates. They drink tea in Cooper’s living room and sit in tubs of ice on his roof terrace.

Village preservationists pushed for landmark protection as soon as Cooper’s purchase came out. They got it in December 2013, when the station became part of the new 240-building South Village Historic District.