Wreckers are hard at work demolishing the old Jack Tar Hotel, which stood on a square block of Van Ness Avenue between Geary and Post streets for 53 years. The hotel, which was called the ...

The Velvet Cloak inn on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, and the old ... area that is rapidly developing. That is, except for Velvet Cloak, which is stuck in time and a legal morass. As for the ...