This 6-Bedroom Indiana Amish Home Is Missing One Big Thing (22 Photos)

A 6-bedroom Amish home in Vevay, Indiana (Switzerland County) has been up for sale online since last month. Like nearly all Amish homes, this one is not plugged in to the public electric grid. That’s not what we’re talking about in the title – the missing piece is something else entirely.

We’ll get to that. First, the property: 6.2 acres with a pole barn, a large workshop, and a pond.

Switzerland County sits in the far southeastern corner of Indiana, tucked near the Kentucky border, well off the beaten path as far as Indiana Amish communities go. Here’s the listing description via Zillow:

An incredible value on this 6 acre hobby farm offered for sale in Switzerland County Indiana. This property offers a 6 bedroom Amish home built new in the last five years. The home would need some updates for mainstream society due to not having indoor plumbing, cabinetry or central air.

There are poured concrete walls in the basement so the possibilities are endless. A huge pole barn that is already divided for livestock will serve as the hub of your new farm.

You might enjoy the ample square footage in your very own workshop as well as the storage attached there too. Pigs, pasture, cattle, horses, and dreams… Come experience country living at its best and enjoy the view from the front porch!

The home is a two-story, 2,400-square-foot structure with metal siding and a metal roof – two outward marks of a plainer Amish abode. Let’s take a look around.

From the front porch, the view opens up over flat farm country. A birdfeeder stands in the yard. This is enough space for plentiful porch chairs, or even a game of cornhole. This is what “enjoy the view from the front porch” looks like in the listing.

Funny enough, after nearly having this post done, I realized we have actually looked at this home before. It was listed back in 2024 at $367,000 and is now back – at a significantly lower price – with this new set of photos. You can see the original post here. Comparing the two sets of photos, you’ll notice some subtle differences in how the property looks today versus 2024.

Inside the House

The kitchen area is a large, open space. Dining table with bench seating to the left, a wooden hutch against the far wall, the black wood cookstove. Wood panel floors throughout, rougher looking than in some plainer Amish homes. No cabinetry — as the listing notes, that’s one of the things this home is missing.

A different angle of the same room gives a better look at the dining area — oilcloth table covering in a classic blue tone, wooden chairs, a wall clock, the hutch with glass doors. This room gets good light via its multiple windows.

Looking across this open space from the dining end, a second china cabinet comes into view. I like the light, translucent curtains for this room (I wouldn’t like them in my bedroom though, as I’m not the earliest riser, at least not compared to the typical Amish farmer).

A closer look at the stove end of the room. A kerosene lamp on the shelf in the foreground is another nod to the traditional nature of this community. Neatly-stacked pots on top of the hutch.

The second main-floor room functions as a sitting room. Blue-cushioned hickory rockers and what look like gliders. Several more oil lamps suggest that they are not just decorative remnants – as they are in some more progressive Amish homes – but are regularly used as a main source of lighting.

Hats and coats hanging on a wall rail, and a single bed visible in the back. We also have a sewing table by the back window, I believe. Looks like a classic multi-functional main room in a plain Amish household.

A closer look at the dresser end of this room. So in this photo we clearly see something I’ve never noticed in an Amish home before. Spot it? A clothes hanger suspended from a hook in the ceiling. That’s the kind of spot where many Amish would hang a pressure lantern, or in more progressive homes, a battery powered light.

I confess I’m not exactly sure what this hanger is there for – is it meant to be used to hang something else from? I don’t see pressure naphtha lamps in these photos, just the teardrop glass kerosene lamps, which you’re not hanging from the ceiling. Hmmm.

One of the six bedrooms. Unfortunately, the listing only gives us the one bedroom photo. These curtains are a shade or two darker than those in the kitchen but still a bit too translucent for my liking 🙂

A closer look at the furniture in the same bedroom — a handsome dark wood dresser and mirror set. Another kerosene lamp.

So — six bedrooms, a large main room, a sitting room, hardwood floors throughout, and not a single bathroom visible anywhere. This next photo might give a clue as to why.

The outhouse. For buyers looking to bring this property up to conventional standards, bathrooms – plumbing for that matter – is the one big missing thing.

The Pole Barn

The pole barn is a large metal structure with sliding doors, divided for livestock per the listing.

Did you catch what’s in the lower left of the previous photo, a bit easy to miss? A tetherball pole planted in a tire. I remember first seeing one of these at an Amish place in Michigan. I’m not sure if tetherball is more an underrated or overrated childhood game. I only played it sparingly as a kid. I wasn’t too good at it, as I remember.

Inside the pole barn. We see a horse or two in their stalls.

A closer look at the right wall of the barn shows the harness and tack setup, and shoes lined up atop one of the beams.

The pigs in their preferred habitat.

The Workshop

A second large structure on the property serves as the workshop.

The listing describes “ample square footage” in this shop along with attached storage.

Inside, we see a long workbench running the left wall, tools and supplies on a shelf above it. This shop goes on for a while and would make a nice functional space for a furniture or other manufacturing operation.

A closer look at the workbench end. On the wall to the left, a personalized wooden heart memento. Plainer Amish generally don’t do a lot of decor, but this is the type of thing you might see when they do.

The Pond

The pond sits at the back of the property, ringed by bare winter trees. I bet it’s a pretty sight when the leaves are back.

So there you have it — 6 bedrooms, 6+ acres, a working livestock operation, workshop, and pond in Switzerland County, Indiana. But of course, if you’re non-Amish, several missing pieces, though not enough to be insurmountable. So what is the price?

This property is listed at $225,000 so quite a bit less than it was on the market for just two years ago. It is represented by Delmar W. Wagler of Integrity Realty Group LLC.