PORT ANGELES — The log cabin at Lincoln Park that once housed a popular tavern may soon get a name change.

The Port Angeles Parks, Recreation and Beautification Commission voted in favor Thursday for renaming the building after Leonard Beil, a community leader who died last October, and his wife, Tea Beil, who died in November 2010.

The City Council will have to give final approval for changing the name to the Leonard and Tea Beil Community Log Cabin.

The cabin, referred to as the Loomis Building on the city’s website, used to be the Loomis Tavern, located on U.S. Highway 101 before closing about 25 years ago.

It was known mostly for the large wooden hand displaying the middle finger that it had outside.

With Beil’s leadership, the tavern was disassembled and reconstructed by the Port Angeles Rotary Club at Lincoln Park in the 1990s. It is now used as a meeting space.

The Rotary Club, of which Beil was a member, proposed the name change.

Beil, a World War II veteran, former Port of Port Angeles commissioner and former principal of both Port Angeles and Sequim high schools, was 88 when he died.

He was also active in the Rotary Club, and spearheaded several other projects.

“I cannot think of very many individuals that have done what Len has in the course of his lifetime,” Fire Chief and Rotary Club President Dan McKeen told the commission.

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Reporter Tom Callis can be reached at 360-417-3532 or at tom.callis@peninsuladailynews.com.