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'''Lovejoy's Hotel''' was a [[New York City, New York]] hotel from the 1830s through 1870. It was located at the corner of [[Park Row (Manhattan)|Park Row]] and Beekman Street in a six-story building.. [The Last of Lovejoy's Hotel], ''[[The New York Times]] 

The [[Astor House]] hotel was opposite it.

==History==
*Jonathan Lovejoy was the original proprietor. John P. Huggins later purchased the hotel.<ref name="lovejoy1">Mower, Henry S. [Reminiscences of a Hotel Man of Forty Year's Service], pp. 76–77 (1912)<br>Huggins ran the hotel for approximately twenty years before purchasing the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his two brothers. [History of Carroll County, New Hampshire], p. 388 (1889). 
*John P. Huggins (obituary)], ''[[The New York Times]]''

In 1852, [[Alvan E. Bovay]], a future founder of the [[Republican Party (United States)|United State Republican Party]], dined with [[Horace Greeley]] at Lovejoy's during the [[1852 Whig National Convention]]. They discussed the need for a new national party, and Bovay suggested it be called the "Republican" party.

The hotel was among those the "[[Confederate Army of Manhattan]]" attempted to burn down in November 1864.<ref name="bbcamerica">Hansen, Gretchen (21 October 2012). [http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/copper/blog/2012/10/the-1864-plot-to-burn-down-new-york-city The 1864 Plot To Burn Down New York City], ''BBC America''</ref>

[[Horatio Alger, Jr.]] mentions Lovejoy's in his 1868 novel ''[[Ragged Dick]]''.

==Closure==
The hotel closed in 1870 and was converted into offices.<ref name="ref1"/> By now [[Park Row (Manhattan)|Park Row]] was dominated by newspapers, and subsequent tenants of the building included the ''[[New York Evening Mail]]'' and the ''[[Rural New Yorker]]''.<ref name="eveningmail1">(15 August 1872). 

The building suffered some damage in the January 1882 fire that destroyed the former [[Potter Building]] (and former home of the ''[[New York World]]''). (1 February 1882). [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1882/02/01/98580281.pdf Surrounding Property Damaged], ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> But it remained standing until around 1890. [Testimony of Nelson S. Flock, Appellate Record, Storms v. New York Elevated Railroad Company, Court of Appeals of the State of New York], p. 84 (1903)]

[[File:Lovejoy's Hotel location 1852.png|thumb|right|300px|1852 map showing location of Lovejoy's Hotel. [[Barnum's American Museum]] can be seen at the top left.]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/yardley/item/8789 1860 hotel envelope with building sketch], at Columbia University Libraries

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