Small Home Gazette, Fall 2010

Keith’s Magazine Online

Keith’s Magazine on Homebuilding was published in Minneapolis during the first three decades of the 20th century. The Minneapolis Public Library has a full set of the magazines in their historic publications collection, but they aren’t on the shelves; you must ask to see them.

An easier way to browse some of the issues is to go online. We found a website with images of hundreds of pages of 1914 issues of the magazine. These issues were, of course, published during the bungalow era and are therefore full of images and articles about bungalows and Arts & Crafts interiors. A second site contains 1904 issues that are pre-bungalow, but here and there you will still see images of “bungaloid” homes.

The magazine was intended for nationwide distribution, so isn’t terribly Minnesota-centric. Still, you can find the occasional Minneapolis or St. Paul house pictured, and a number of the ads are for Minnesota and Midwest businesses.

Here are links to the images of the magazine pages:

• Jan. through Dec. 1914 issues (vols. 31 and 32) of Keith’s Magazine on Homebuilding, published in Minneapolis, MN
  www.archive.org/details/keithsmagazineon31minnuoft

• Google Books: Volume 11, 1904 Keith’s Magazine (about 338 pages):
  http://tinyurl.com/36m585p