Oct 17, 2014

For centuries, the craftspeople who worked at G. Krug & Son Ironworks have produced original iron work and restorations for some of the city’s most prominent structures, including the Baltimore Basilica, Homewood House at Johns Hopkins University and the Old Otterbein United Methodist Church. At the moment, the crew is working on refurbishing the fence and eight planters for the restoration of the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon Place.

: G. Krug & Son Ironworks is the oldest continually run blacksmith shop in the country. The museum has recently been granted nonprofit status. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Peter Krug, owner of G. Krug & Son Ironworks, lines up a drill press to make points on window pickets. The drill press is from the early 1900s. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Keys from the 1800s hang by a window in G. Krug & Son Ironworks, the oldest continually run blacksmith shop in the country. G. Krug & Son Ironworks Museum was recently given nonprofit status. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Forging hammers inside G. Krug & Son Ironworks, the oldest continually run blacksmith shop in the country. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Evan Price of Reservoir Hill, a fabricator for G. Krug & Son Ironworks, works to move fencing from the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon Place into the shop for repairs. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Evan Price of Reservoir Hill, a fabricator, holds up glass plate negative stored on an upper floor of G. Krug & Son Ironworks, the oldest continually run blacksmith shop in the country. The image is a document of the company’s work. G. Krug & Son Ironworks Museum was recently awarded nonprofit status. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Scrolls hang on a wall at G. Krug & Son Ironworks, the oldest continually run blacksmith shop in the country. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Evan Price of Reservoir Hill, a fabricator for G. Krug & Son Ironworks, works to repair an urn leg from the Washington Monument at Mount Vernon Place. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Evan Price of Reservoir Hill, a fabricator for G. Krug & Son Ironworks, works to repair an urn leg from the Washington Monument at Mount Vernon Place. He is welding nickel to the cast iron leg. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Brad Wendler uses a chain hoist as he helps move pieces of fence from the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon Place inside G. Krug & Son Ironworks. Wendler, whose wife works for Krug, transported the fence on a flatbed truck. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: A detail picture of a decorative teller cage is shown in the museum at G. Krug & Son Ironworks, the oldest continually run blacksmith shop in the country. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Keys from the 1800s hang by a window in G. Krug & Son Ironworks. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

: Peter Krug, owner of G. Krug & Son Ironworks, steadies a section of fence that came from around the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon Place as it is moved into the shop. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)

The Internal Revenue Service recently approved an application to run a museum in the company as a separate nonprofit, allowing it to raise money needed to upgrade exhibits and the building itself. The folks who run the blacksmith shop near Lexington Market have been welcoming tours by appointment for a couple of years, but they’ve just taken a step toward a more professional exhibit presentation.

G. Krug & Son Ironworks, in business since 1810

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