[2] The 22 story hotel, designed in the French Renaissance style, has a dark red brick veneer with limestone trim over a steel frame.

The building, which is 289 feet tall, is topped with a tower featuring a mansard roof of copper, now aged with a green patina.

[3] Following the redevelopment of the downtown area in the 1990s, the hotel is within walking distance of many Baltimore attractions such as the Inner Harbor, Camden Yards, and the National Aquarium.

The partnership filed for bankruptcy in 1987 and the hotel was then taken over from its defunct creditor by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) during the savings and loan crisis of the mid-1980s.

[10] It dropped the Radisson flag and reopened in 2014 as an independent hotel, after undergoing a total remodeling of guest rooms, and restoration of the building's public spaces.