Peter Krug, the fifth generation of Krugs at the old ironworks on West Saratoga Street, took me through his shop one recent morning. After the tour, upstairs and down, I concluded that no place in Baltimore has a richer feel of yesterday, so real you can touch it and come away with dust on your fingers. G. Krug & Son is cluttered with objects — tools, patterns and samples of ornamental iron — from the last century and the century before that. If it seems that nothing has been discarded, there’s good reason: Krug now restores or replicates the ironworks that came out of the factory ages ago. G. Krug is said to be the oldest ironworks factory in the country, still operating in its 215th year. Please see the photos that follow, and you can read about it in my column for Baltimore Fishbowl.

Five generations of Krugs

Peter Krug, right, represents the fifth generation to run the ironworks

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Dan Rodricks is a former long-time columnist for The Baltimore Sun, winner of numerous national and regional journalism awards, a radio and TV personality, podcaster and fly angler. His narrative memoir, "Father's Day Creek," was published in May 2019 by Apprentice House at Loyola University Maryland.

6 thoughts on “Photo Gallery: G. Krug & Son of Baltimore, forging history”

  1. Thank you Dan – I’m so glad you are writing about Krug & Co and other very positive

    things in Baltimore!! We need good news more than ever.

    sue Talbott

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