Areas
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The Craft Shoe Shop proudly serves Gaithersburg, MD and the surrounding Montgomery County communities.
Communities
we serve
Gaithersburg, MD
Gaithersburg is home base for us, and the city wears just about everything. Dress shoes step off the Brunswick Line MARC train in Olde Towne, lab and office shoes fill the NIST campus and the I-270 corridor, and work boots come in caked from job sites. The bench is on Main Street in the Kentlands.
View GaithersburgKentlands, MD
The Kentlands was built to be walked, with narrow grid streets, front porches, picket fences, and garages hidden on the back alleys, so a pair of everyday shoes here logs real miles instead of sitting in a car. We are right on Main Street, so drop-off is usually a walk, not a drive.
View KentlandsRockville, MD
Rockville is the county seat, and the walk from the Red Line and MARC platforms to the Judicial Center on Maryland Avenue is done in dress shoes every weekday. Pavement like that grinds down heels and edges, and the leather briefcases carried alongside them take the same beating. Both are routine work at the Kentlands bench.
View RockvilleNorth Potomac, MD
North Potomac has no downtown of its own, so errands run north to Kentlands Main Street or south to Potomac Village. Its subdivisions back onto the Muddy Branch Greenway Trail, and boots walked there come home caked and stiff, ready for cleaning, conditioning, and fresh stitching.
View North PotomacGermantown, MD
Germantown has no town government of its own and spreads across villages strung along Father Hurley Boulevard and Middlebrook Road, so almost nothing there is a short walk. Standing shifts at Holy Cross Germantown Hospital and the Montgomery College campus on Observation Drive flatten work shoes fast, and a flattened shoe can be rebuilt instead of replaced.
View GermantownDarnestown, MD
Darnestown stayed semi-rural, a crossroads of Darnestown Road and Seneca Road where homes sit on acres in the Seneca Creek valley and sidewalks are rare. Life there happens on gravel drives, in barns, and in creek-bottom mud, which is hard on boot soles, stitching, and dyed leather.
View DarnestownMontgomery Village, MD
Montgomery Village has been a planned community since the Kettler Brothers broke ground in 1966, and its older townhome clusters are still linked by paved walking paths, including the one that loops Lake Whetstone. Daily walkers there wear through heels and outsoles long before the uppers give out, which is exactly what resoling is for.
View Montgomery VillagePotomac, MD
Potomac spreads across large lots along Falls Road and River Road, where fenced paddocks sit a few miles from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath at Great Falls. Riding boots, barn leathers, and towpath hiking boots take on mud and mileage that dress shoes never see. All of them can be recrafted rather than replaced.
View PotomacClarksburg, MD
Clarksburg is the northernmost of the county's I-270 corridor towns, where Town Center and Cabin Branch went up on land that was farmland a generation ago. Residents log long commutes south toward Bethesda and DC, then trade dress shoes for hiking boots on the natural surface trails at Little Bennett Regional Park. Both wardrobes put real mileage on leather.
View ClarksburgDerwood, MD
Derwood never grew a downtown. It is older houses and remnant farmland strung along Redland Road and Muncaster Mill Road, with the Agricultural History Farm Park still working ground out on Muncaster Mill. Boots used on that footing come back stiff and split at the flex, which is stitching and sole work, not a lost cause.
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