George E. Krug

Who is George E. Krug?

George Edward Krug was an American architect who practiced in Greater New York City, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Orlando, Florida.

George Edward Krug was born in 1869 in Brazil, the son of Jean and Ida B. Krug. 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. 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. There, he collaborated with other architects including, Maximiliano Emilio Hehl. Painter Anita Malfatti 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.