Lovejoy's Hotel was a New York City hotel from the 1830s through 1870. It was located at the corner of Park Row and Beekman Street in a six-story building in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan.[1] The Astor House hotel was opposite it.
Jonathan Lovejoy was the original proprietor. John P. Huggins later purchased the hotel.[2] Huggins ran the hotel for approximately twenty years before purchasing the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his two brothers.[3][4]
The hotel closed in 1870 and was converted into offices.[1] By now Park Row was dominated by newspapers, and subsequent tenants of the building included the New York Evening Mail and the Rural New Yorker.[8]
The building suffered some damage in the January 1882 fire that destroyed the former Potter Building (and former home of the New York World).[9] But it remained standing until around 1888 or 1889.[10][11]
1852 map showing location of Lovejoy's Hotel. Barnum's American Museum can be seen at the top left.