RICHLAND, Wash. – The Gallery at the Park, one of the few remaining original buildings in the Tri-Cities, stands as a monument to local artists.

Bob Allen, who works with the Allied Arts Association, shared the building's rich history. "It's been a private home, a boarding house, the village library, the village newspaper. It was the ration board in World War two and an irrigation company office," he said.

Allen, who has lived in the Tri-Cities since the 1980s, joined the association after retiring from a communications career at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He took on the role after his wife suggested it. "My wife told me to find something to do, and we knew the president of the Allied Arts Association who was looking for a publicity person. And my wife said, oh, I know he

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