A brownstone on East 73rd Street was a sanctuary for Gloria Steinem, the trailblazing feminist who died there on Wednesday at age 92. But for decades Ms. Steinem’s Upper East Side home was also a gathering space for other thinkers, activists and cultural and political figures who would assemble there to discuss social issues. A meeting held in the living room led to the formation of Ms. magazine in 1971, which Ms. Steinem co-founded, and she hosted her well-known “talking circles” there for years.

It will continue to be used for the purpose of political gathering and discussion after her death, Jill Heller, the director of programs at Gloria’s Foundation, said on Wednesday. Over the years, Ms. Steinem acquired three floors of the five-story building. The foundation occupies one floor, and the other two are now “poised to eventually become part of the larger Gloria’s Foundation,” Ms. Heller said. Per Ms. Steinem’s own wishes, Ms. Heller said, the foundation will now maintain the home as a permanent space for organizing and activism.

It was a rental property when Ms. Steinem first moved in, in 1967. She shared the unit with her roommate, the artist Barbara Nessim. The two made the space their own, building a loft with a porch found in a dumpster in Connecticut. Ms. Steinem eventually purchased the unit, and over the years she bought up additional floors of the building, making more room for hosting. Countless writers, celebrities and politicians have spent time there, including Tarana Burke, Hillary Clinton, Alice Walker and Lupita Nyong’o.

“There’s an immediate warmth when you come in the door,” said Synclaire Warren, a feminist activist, who hosted an event with Ms. Steinem in February for Black History Month. The topic was Black maternal health, Ms. Warren said, and discussing it in Ms. Steinem’s home added a feeling of safety. “I think it’s incredibly hard to talk about some of these topics, from maternal deaths to miscarriages to just not being believed in medical rooms,” she said. “And you have 40 women who’ve never really met each other before talking about how their moms had incredibly hard births, how they’ve had a hard time carrying.”