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Visionary artist, Lloyd "Ace" Parsons and wife Claire. Photo: Instant picture left in house, photographer & date unknown.
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Enclosed back porch of the Rainbow House overlooking the gardens and "Dodge City". Photo: Lloyd "Ace" Parsons.
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The Rainbow House: Created by Lloyd "Ace" and Claire Parsons beginning in 1972, demolished August 11, 1999. All photographs by Richard Hovey unless credited otherwise.
(Please email us with memories of your visit to the house.)
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Dolls were a major interior decoration theme along with owls, stars and, of course, bright colors.
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Vancouver, where?
Located on the north shore of the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon, Vancouver, Washington (USA) was the first major European settlement in the Northwest before Portland, Seattle and that city in Canada we are so often confused with -- Vancouver, British Columbia
Please click at left to learn about the wide range of interesting, historic sights to see in Vancouver and Clark County Washington.
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PO Box 2038
Vancouver, WA 98668-2038 (USA)
w s at
artistictraveler . com
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Last revised Dec.
30, 2003
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Contents of this
web site ©1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Richard Hovey.
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