To bring our readers up to date on our acquisitions over the last couple of years, here is a list of donated collections and material to the Northwest Architectural Archives:

• Ankeny Kell papers: job files, plan sets, digital files, material donated by the firm.
• Brighton Development Corporation: Woman owned firm that collaborated with Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton to revitalize Minneapolis neighborhoods. Job files donated by the firm owners.
• Thomas Blanck papers: Local architect, historian, and a Cass Gilbert scholar who restored many homes around Cathedral Hill. His papers include plan sets, trade catalogs, with more to come.
• Chiat papers (accruals): UMN professor emeritus, Marilyn Chiat, materials include family papers, research travel, photographs, and writings.
• Close Associates: Last of files, books, ephemera before their office building sold; Hargens family papers, books, donated by Gar Hargens.
• Cuningham papers: In 2025, John Cuningham, FAIA, donated a large part of his student work from both the U of M and the Harvard Graduate School of Design where one of his teachers was Walter Groupius.
• Johnson papers: Leigh Johnson self-taught & expert furniture maker and who accurately restored colonial era homes on the east coast, includes historical house surveys, donated by Leigh Johnson.
• Miriam Bend Lien,: UMN School of Architecture, material donated by the family.
• Lovness Estate papers: the Frank Lloyd Wright designed residence for the Lovness family including correspondence, photographs, and ephemera.
• Charlie Nelson Library: Former State of Minnesota’s Historic Architect, Charlie Nelson’s Library, material donated by the family.
• A book belonging to Marion Alice Parker, inscribed by William Grey Purcell after her death, donated by a visitor to our “Making Room: Women’s Histories in the Northwest Architectural Archives” exhibition.
• Rapson: Toby & Linda Rapson donated more material to the Rapson papers, including slides, ephemera, plans, drawings, and job files.
• Inez Allen Roach material, donated by a former neighbor and exhibit visitor.
• Roney collection: Craig Roney, an award-winning architect’s watercolor paintings of the built environment, donated by the family.