PORT ANGELES — One of the city’s oldest and tallest structures is about to get a partial face lift to better showcase its ornate style and longstanding history at the corner of Lincoln and First streets.
The five-story Elks Naval Lodge building will undergo exterior improvements this summer that should take it back to what it looked like in 1927, the year it opened, said new lodge manager Glenn G. Larson.
“My vision and the board’s vision is to make it comfortable and pleasant to look at and to get people in here again,” Larson said in his office overlooking East First Street.
“We want to make it a place for people to do a variety of things.”
Larson, a Port Angeles restaurateur much of his life, was hired by the board of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Naval Lodge No. 353 more than two months ago to help improve the building, its food services, and recreational and entertainment offerings.
The building — with a massive ballroom, restaurant, basement-level fitness center and pool and card room — has 900 members.
“Before I came here they had plans to improve the building. That was the board’s idea. They just needed somebody to implement it,” Larson said.
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