SAN FRANCISCO (AP/CBS) -- San Francisco's Sir Francis Drake Hotel will be called The Beacon Grand in the latest attempt in the Bay Area to rename streets and landmarks after the slave-trading explorer ...

San Francisco’s Sir Francis Drake Hotel will be called The Beacon Grand in the latest attempt in the Bay Area to rename streets and landmarks after the slave-trading explorer. For 94 years the hotel, ...

One of San Francisco's most famous hotels has rebranded. The Sir Francis Drake Hotel, the Union Square icon that opened in 1928, will become the Beacon Grand. The news was first reported by the San ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The iconic Sir Francis Drake Hotel opened in 1928 and now 94 years later it's changing from the inside out. Starting with its controversial name. "His name doesn't have to be ...

San Francisco’s iconic Sir Francis Drake Hotel, which has watched over Powell and Sutter streets since 1928, was quietly sold in April. The hotel — a Gothic Revival and Renaissance icon in the city — ...

Sir Francis Drake left his name in California on a bay not far from San Francisco. He also left a legacy that can be strange to people who come from a democracy that believe that rules and laws are ...

That’s when he found what he called a “Fair and Good Bay” in which to make repairs. For years, Californians have claimed he landed on their shores. But a scholar at Portland State University says ...

DRAKE’S drum beats bravely through the biography of Sir Francis Drake by E. F. Benson. He took with him, says his biographer, ‘on his voyage round the world, in 1577, a smart new drum. When he ...

The 416-room hotel is scheduled to reopen this spring following a makeover. SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco's Sir Francis Drake Hotel will be called The Beacon Grand in the latest attempt in the Bay ...