Right off the bat, this home has two things that stand out about it – its small size for an Amish home (1,192 square feet), and its fancy design. In fact, it reminds me of the style seen in the million-dollar Amish home we looked at last year. This home has a Garretsville, Ohio address. Garrettsville is in northern Portage County, which would make it…
One of my favorite things about looking at Amish homes is: there are almost always little details that stand out. This week’s home fits that bill, as it looks like it was an English-built…but then there is that classic blue Amish door frame hinting that this is not currently an English-owned place. I don’t know exactly what you call this style of home, but it’s…
The two words that first hit me to describe this Amish home are “spacious” and “squeaky clean”. You’ll see what I mean in the photos below. The community is Salem, Indiana. This is also a quite low, or plain/traditional home. In this case that means zero bathrooms. The area of Salem has more than one Amish community today. One is a New Order Amish settlement,…
This is an Amish home in the Berne, Indiana community (Adams County). This would be the largest group of the generally conservative “Swiss Amish”. Depending on when you read this, the home and farm you see here will soon find itself – or may have already found – a new owner. This is a home destined for auction, so there’s no big price reveal at…
This Michigan home for sale comes with a 100-tree peach orchard – and possibly even an Amish school building? More on that in a minute. The community is Pittsford, which is in Hillsdale County, home to four Amish settlements. It appears to be the community at Osseo going by the latest Amish community listings. Hillsdale County has a special place in my own personal Amish…
One thing I like about doing this Amish Homes series is the variety of homes we get to see. Compare what you’re about to see with the last one we covered, a Lancaster Amish shop home. This week’s Amish home is found in Michigan. It’s in the Sault Ste. Marie area (Chippewa County), home to a small Amish community. Hat-tip to reader Maxwell Hodgkins for…
The home we’re going to look at today will probably have some people saying “that’s not an Amish home!” Well, it happens to be one. It’s just one of the more modern-looking homes (at least inside) you’ll see among the Amish. That said, the interior style you’ll see here is becoming increasingly common among Amish in more progressive communities, like Lancaster County, where this home…
The Swartzentruber Amish came to North Carolina in 2015, becoming the second Amish community in the state (not second ever, but second at that time). Since then, the community seems to have grown a bit, but not at a very fast pace. When I visited there last year, I was pleased to hear that there were more homes than there had been on my prior…
Ranch-style homes are a bit atypical for the Amish, but you will see them here and there. Especially in smaller communities where Amish might be more inclined to buy already-existing English homes. This particular home was built over 40 years ago, but as we’ll see inside and out it has been thoroughly “Amishized”. This is another home in the Oak Hill community in Jackson County,…
I landed on the adjective “fancy” to describe this home, and I think you’ll see why once we look inside. It’s not the fanciest of all Amish homes we’ve looked at here (that would be this one). But there are a lot of things here which give the home a sumptuous feel (at least by Amish norms). This one is in the Munfordville, Kentucky settlement,…