What was once the Loews Annapolis Hotel, then Hotel Annapolis, is now the Graduate Annapolis.

The rebranded hotel’s changes were revealed at its grand opening last week.

Along with a name change, the building has undergone a renovation that includes the exterior, all guestrooms, common areas, the restaurant and the hotel’s 20,000 square feet of meeting and event space.

The 216-room hotel’s decor will be nautically themed with nods to Annapolis’ coastal positioning and history, sailing culture and the Naval Academy. The lobby’s ceiling and walls now have sailing knot wallpaper and wood columns with brass banding reminiscent of traditional wooden ship barrels.

The four-story interior atrium now has hundreds of nautical vintage art reproductions and carpet depicting the Naval Academy’s Bancroft Hall rotunda.

The renovation also comes with Graduate Hotels’ cafe, Poindexter, and CampPoindexter Severn Shore, a coastal-inspired full-service restaurant.

Loews sold the hotel to Adventurous Journeys Capital, a Chicago-based real estate investment firm, in July 2018. In the interim, the hotel was operating independently as Hotel Annapolis.

Graduate Annapolis is part of the larger Graduate Hotels collection, which targets college communities and caters to university alumni, attendees and their families. Hotels in college towns such as Ann Arbor, Michigan or Charlottesville, Virginia, pay homage to the culture of their respective universities. There are 21 Graduate Hotels, with eight planned in the next two years. The Annapolis acquisition is Graduate’s first Maryland hotel.

The building is close to St. John’s College and the Naval Academy, which have a combined student population of about 5,000.

This is the fourth Annapolis hotel sale in the last two years. In April 2018, Crescent Real Estate LLC bought the Westin hotel and Hersha Hospitality Trust purchased the Annapolis Waterfront hotel. In October 2017, OTO Development bought the O’Callaghan Hotel.

Staff Writer Danielle Ohl contributed to this report.