George E. Krug

George Edward Krug (also known as Jorge Krug) was an American architect who practiced in Greater New York City (from Orange, New Jersey), Sao Paulo, Brazil and Orlando, Florida.

George Edward Krug was born in 1869 in Brazil, the son of Jean and Ida B. Krug (d. May 4, 1904). ["Mrs. Ida B. Krug dies abroad. Special to the New York Times", Orange, NJ, May 4; New York Times, May 5, 1904] His father Jean Krug – a commission merchant of Prussian ancestry – had been born in Brazil, in 1842; his mother Ida, in Hamburg, Germany, in 1846. [1880 US Census - familysearch.org] As a child, Krug lived in New York City. The family was well to do, they employed a governess for George as well as having other live-in servants.

George Krug graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in the class of 1884. He went on to study architecture in Philadelphia, at the Fine Arts Institute of the University of Pennsylvania.

Thereafter he spent more than a decade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, starting in 1889. ["George Krug is prospering as an architect in San Paulo, Brazil", The Lafayette Weekly, 1896] [Special Consular Reports, United States Dept. of State Bureau of Statistics, United States Bureau of Foreign Commerce, United States Bureau of Manufactures, G.P.O., 1901; p 341] [The Chi-Phi Quarterly, Official Organ of the Chi-Phi Fraternity in the United States by Chi Phi, 1882-1884; page 80] There, he collaborated with other architects including, Maximiliano Emilio Hehl. Painter Anita Malfatti (1889-1964) was his niece. Upon his return to the United States, Krug maintained an architectural practice with offices on Broadway and in Orange, NJ, designing buildings in the greater New York City area. Krug was the architect of the Hyde Park Club House and many residential properties in Hyde Park, NJ. He was also one of the select group of architects who designed buildings for the planned suburban community of ‘’Livingston Manor’’ in Hyde Park, NJ. This development consisted of architect-designed homes in various styles: Queen Anne houses, Bungalows, Foursquares, and Colonial Revival houses with embellishments typical of the Craftsman era philosophy, which emphasized the value of the labor of skilled artisans who showed pride in their abilities.

By 1919 Krug removed to Florida. He is listed as an architect in Orlando, Florida, in the report of the Florida Office of the Secretary of State of that year. [ReportBy Florida Office of Secretary of State, 1919] As such, Krug was among less than a dozen architects in Orlando at that time. The others include: F. B. Bodine, Fred E. Field, David Hyer, Murray S. King, Howard M. Reynolds, Frederick H. Trimble, Ryan and Roberts (Ida Annah Ryan and Isabel Roberts) and Percy P. Turner. [Orlando city phone directories from the 1920s]

Architectural Work - Partial Listing

* Hyde Park Club House, Hyde Park, NJ – circa 1905
* "Livingston Manor", houses, Highland Park, New Jersey - 1906

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