It was located at the corner of Park Row and Beekman Street in a six-story building in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan.

[3][4] In 1852, Alvan E. Bovay, a future founder of the United States Republican Party, dined with Horace Greeley at Lovejoy's during the 1852 Whig National Convention.

[5][6] The hotel was among those the "Confederate Army of Manhattan" attempted to burn down in November 1864.

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

[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.