experience our history
founding years
1895-1896
John Brisben Walker secured the Irvington site and enlisted Stanford White to design the Cosmopolitan Building as Cosmopolitan magazine’s home. The building introduced Irvington to the craft and ambition of Gilded Age architecture while anchoring a new chapter in the village’s history.
1905-1910
the cosmopolitan
Between 1905 and 1910, William Randolph Hearst acquired Cosmopolitan and shifted its operations back to New York City. The move closed Irvington’s founding chapter while linking the magazine to the nation’s publishing capital and expanding its cultural reach.
MID 20TH-CENTURY
Industrial Shift
With publishing operations gone, the building found new life in industry, accommodating fabrication and assembly uses. During World War II it contributed to manufacturing efforts that supported the war.
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