Amish Homes

This Amish Home Goes Up For Auction In Two Hours (20 Photos)

This Amish Home Goes Up For Auction In Two Hours (20 Photos)

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…

Inside An Amish Home With 100-Tree Peach Orchard (20 Photos)

Inside An Amish Home With 100-Tree Peach Orchard (20 Photos)

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…

Inside A “Charming Off-Grid Amish-Built Home & Farm” (28 Photos)

Inside A “Charming Off-Grid Amish-Built Home & Farm” (28 Photos)

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…

Inside A “Modern Cozy” Lancaster County Amish Home (22 Photos)

Inside A “Modern Cozy” Lancaster County Amish Home (22 Photos)

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…

Inside A Swartzentruber Amish Home (20 Photos) in North Carolina

Inside A Swartzentruber Amish Home (20 Photos) in North Carolina

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…

Inside An Amish Ranch Home (Plus Dawdihaus) – 30 Photos

Inside An Amish Ranch Home (Plus Dawdihaus) – 30 Photos

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,…

Inside A Progressive (Fancy) Amish Home (21 Photos)

Inside A Progressive (Fancy) Amish Home (21 Photos)

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,…

Life In A Plain Amish Home: Converted Sewing Machine, Basement Canning & Quilt-in-Progress (15 Photos)

Life In A Plain Amish Home: Converted Sewing Machine, Basement Canning & Quilt-in-Progress (15 Photos)

Let’s have a look inside a plain Amish home at the family sewing machine, basement canning, and quiltmaking. Previously we saw how the most conservative Amish heat water and use wringer washers. The reader who sent those images in, Maxwell Hodgkins, has some more interesting shots from inside the home of a conservative Amish family. Let’s have a look. Converted Sewing Machine First of all…

Inside A Minnesota Amish Home & Store (17 Photos)

Inside A Minnesota Amish Home & Store (17 Photos)

So here we have an Amish home-and-store package way up in northern Minnesota. They’re selling both buildings together. I doubt they’re leaving behind the contents of the store. But we can still take a look at what’s inside both the home and store in these photos. There are a cluster of Amish communities in the the top half of the Land of 10,000 Lakes. This one would…

Inside A No-Frills Amish Home: 4 Bedrooms, 0 Bathrooms (24 Photos)

Inside A No-Frills Amish Home: 4 Bedrooms, 0 Bathrooms (24 Photos)

So here we return to New York for a look at an Amish home that just appeared on Zillow a day ago. On first glance I must admit I wasn’t sure if it was an Amish-owned home (note the old-school TV antenna on top), but that it is. It’s simply a home that was previously lived in by non-Amish people (as other features in the…