The present article broaches the carrier of George Henry Krug, a Brazilian egress from the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States, in 1876, and working in Brazil from the ends of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. By placing together the formation that Krug received in the United States with his professional activities developed in the country, we sought to delineate the steps of his carrier that are shown to be disconnected in the historiography of Brazilian architecture.