Every shop on this list opened before 1930. Many are still run by the founders' families. A few passed to employees or neighbors who kept the recipes. All of them still fry donuts.
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The Century Club
Still frying after a hundred years, or close to it.
All of them still fry donuts.
Where they are
Rolling out the map…
Positions are approximate, town-level.
The timeline
1908
New Palace BakeryHamtramck, MI
A Polish bakery, still family-owned, and the heart of Michigan's Pączki Day.
1912
Resch's BakeryGahanna, OH
German immigrant brothers Frank and Wilhelm Resch started it in Columbus. After 113 years on East Livingston Avenue, the family moved to a bigger bakery in Gahanna in October 2025.
1913
Fenwick BakeryBaltimore, MD
Founded by Swiss immigrant Ernest Uebersax and his wife Alvena. Two longtime employees bought it from the founders' children in 1994.
1916
T. Komoda Store & BakeryMakawao, HI
A plantation-town store that became a bakery in 1947. The founder's granddaughter runs it today.
1917
Sunrise BakeryBeatrice, NE
A downtown Beatrice mainstay for more than a century.
1918
Soholt BakeryMayville, ND
Three generations of Soholts ran it until 2021. A cousin reopened it in 2022 with the original recipes. Get the raspberry Bismarck.
1923
Paielli's BakeryKenosha, WI
Sante and Matilda Paielli's family bakery, famous for the Cyclops doughnut. A fourth generation is joining.
1924
Bloedow BakeryWinona, MN
Still frying from 1924 recipes. Krispy Kreme came to Winona and pulled out within two years. Bloedow's stayed.
1924
Wahoo BakeryWahoo, NE
On its seventh owners since 2020, still making applesauce donuts and kolaches from scratch.
1925
National Bakery & DeliMilwaukee, WI
Louis Wisniewski named it National because the word meant "for the people" in Polish. It turned 100 in 2025.
1926
Round Rock DonutsRound Rock, TX
It opened as the Lone Star Bakery. Texas Monthly later named its orange-gold glazed donut the best doughnut in Texas.
1928
Busken BakeryCincinnati, OH
Joe Busken Sr. borrowed $500 to put an oven behind a meat-market counter. Hot glazed donuts are still about half the business.
1929
Spalding's BakeryLexington, KY
Lexington's oldest doughnut maker. Hand-cut, stick-flipped, cash only, and often sold out by late morning. Fourth generation.
1929
Potter's BakeryTraverse City, MI
Norman and Julia Potter's bakery. Fourth-generation owners took over in January 2024.
Know a shop that opened before 1930 and belongs here? Suggest a shop
A hundred years of making the same thing well. The shop near you is working on year twelve or year sixty. Either way, it's still open this morning.
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