 In 1991 it was converted into condominiums, though areas remain open to the public.The eleven-story tan brick building rises from a rusticated stone base to an elaborately-detailed "French Second Empire" styled crown with a traditional mansard roofline.The hotel is named for its site on the former "Belvidere" estate of American Revolutionary War military leader/hero, a later civic and city leader, Colonel John Eager Howard, (1752–1827), of the famous "Maryland Line" regiment of the Continental Army which distinguished itself especially at the Battle of Long Island/Battle of Brooklyn outside New York in August 1776 and the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina in 1780.