The hotel is 'famous as' the place where the treaty was signed.
a 'famous' entertainer/explorer/athlete/politician
The hotel is (justly) 'famous for' its luxury.
(..) I only knew of two comics of Geof's before ... ... one of them, a legendary comic, Hard Boiled. And then Big Boy, which was not so famous. But Hard Boiled is pretty well-known. I had Hard Boiled on my shelf, like millions of other people. All I could assume was (..)2001 The Matrix Revisited