Downtown Raleigh's historic Sir Walter building has been sold, officials announced Wednesday. Used as an apartment building for senior citizens, the once-hotel located at 400 Fayetteville St. has been ...

Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake are among ten house names being removed at Exeter School - GETTY A private school has pledged to remove the names of Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake ...

Downtown Raleigh’s iconic Sir Walter Raleigh statue has been transformed into a wide range of personas over the past nine years: musician, jogger, shopper, wildlife enthusiast. But in the early part ...

The Raleigh Marriott City Center is downtown’s latest hotel, but the opening reminds some of the city’s oldest surviving hotel building – the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel. Built between 1923 and 1924, the ...

Sir Walter Raleigh was a head of his time. Nearly 400 years after his decapitation, a portrait of a man’s head has been found in one of the Tower of London chambers where Raleigh was held during his ...

A mysterious painting hidden for centuries at the Tower of London may be a self-portrait of the famous adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh. The crude etching, which was found beneath layers of paint in the ...

A red velvet bag found at a medieval mansion just outside London could hold new hints in the mystery over what became of Walter Raleigh’s head following his execution for treason in 1618. Raleigh – a ...

Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire. By Alan Gallay. Basic Books; 576 pages; $40 and £30.95. PERHAPS IT WAS the fact that he was already dead that enabled Walter Raleigh to face his execution with such ...

It's one of the nation's great mysteries: The first permanent colony of English settlers in what would become the U.S., founded in North Carolina in 1587 by Sir Walter Raleigh, disappeared three years ...

A manor once owned by the family of Sir Walter Raleigh is for sale, according to a real estate website in the UK. A listing by Jackson-Stops describes Fardel Manor as having “significant historic and ...