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11/12/15
Local Non-Profits Benefit from Georgia Gives Day

Schwartz Roofing assisted a working grandmother who has custody of her three grandchildren on Georgia Gives Day 2015 by replacing her roof. ...


06/20/15
Fifth generation of L.E. Schwartz family works in 105-year-old Macon business

Michael Kruger’s toddler runs around the halls at the office -- just as his dad did when he was a boy. It’s not the only tradition the Kruger family has. ...


04/01/10
Macon Magazine: Up on the Roof

Forget your notions of a family business fraught with tension - of disagreeable relatives locked in a battle of egos with predictable consequences. At Macon's L. E. Schwartz & Son, celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010, you'll find three generations w ...


12/20/09
Macon Telegraph: Using their Nog-In

When Louis Erwin Schwartz arrived in Macon from Hungary, he had little more than a soldering pot. Looking over the handlebars of his motorcycle, the sheet metal woker and craftsmen had no idea what lay ahead for him and his descendants. ...


03/01/08
Savannah Morning News: Shiny New Cap for City Hall

After being gone for six months, the cupola atop Savannah City Hall was returned Thursday. It took all day for work crews to attach the 16-foot-high adornment to the top of the building's dome ...


06/01/06
Address Macon Magazine: Keeping it in the Family

In 1910, an immigrant Hungarian metalworker came to Macon from Houston, Texas with only a few things in the world: his wife and two-year-old daughter, a motorcycle, and a steadfast business philosphy. ...