The History of Gunther Brewery in Baltimore
Gunther was a brewery based in Baltimore, Maryland. In its heyday, it was one of the city's greatest breweries, linked with its German roots and Baltimore's German population.
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Origins
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George Gunther Jr. founded the brewery in 1900. It occupied a site the shape of a quarter circle east of the Canton Historic District in Baltimore. In its earliest days, the brewery was named "Guenther."
Milieu
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The Gunther Brewing Company was made up of 15 buildings. That included the brew house itself: a five-story brick building of Romanesque architecture.
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Prominence
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By 1959, the Gunther Brewing Company had blossomed into one of Baltimore's largest breweries. It was producing 800,000 barrels per year and employing at least 600 people.
Decline
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In 1960, Theodore Hamm--founder and owner of Minnesota-based Hamm's Brewing Co.--bought the company and discontinued the Gunther brand. Three years later, Hamm sold Gunther to the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co., a brewery based in New York City that restored the brand. However, Gunther never fully recovered from losing its local base, and in 1978, the brewery was closed.
Today
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The former site of the Gunther Brewing Company is now the plant for Tulkoff's Horseradish. In 2002, the company was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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