Inside A Picture-Perfect Minnesota Amish Home (19 Photos)

I’m calling this Minnesota Amish home “picture-perfect” because the photographer did a great job, but also because the place is very neat and well-kept.

Often the Swartzentruber Amish homes are not that way. Yards are untidy and the homes themselves have a very rough and unfinished appearance.

But this place, inside and out, gives the impression of a very clean, cozy, and well-taken-care-of home.

The address is Canton, MN, and the community is more commonly referred to as the Harmony Amish community. Amish first came to this area from Wayne County, Ohio, 50 years ago, and the settlement is today the state’s largest.

Here are the property details:

The simpler life awaits you with this quaint, well kept property. The 36 acres is thoughtfully set up for you to begin homesteading, expand your current farming operation or run a successful business off of the farm.

Similar to other plain Amish homes, this one is pitched as a “homesteading” opportunity. Another recent one was presented as a “prepper’s paradise“.

Offering you numerous outbuildings and multiple paddocks, along with a great mix of tillable and pastureland, this property also has an established orchard, providing you with everything you need to live independently off the grid.

The large 7 bedroom home features an open concept with hardwood floors, a main floor bedroom, walk up attic, spacious pantry and covered porch.

There are seven bedrooms here, but no bathrooms.  And “open concept” is a modern real estate term which I’ve never seen applied to an Amish home – but I guess it fits!

With great visibility and convenient access off of a blacktop road, this property has additional revenue potential with horse boarding capabilities, a store, workshop, second home and hunting cabin. Take a drive to Amish country and experience the peaceful life that this farm has to offer!

You can see by this wider shot that the property is not just a single home, but has at least one dawdihaus.

Those are traditionally the small homes built on an Amish farm for the grandparents to retire to as one of their children takes over full-time operation of the farm. You can see it in the foreground of this photo.

There is also this building which looks like a home, but appears to be a store (and possibly small living quarters in one part). The yellow sign here advertises “Honey for sale”. There are several other interesting buildings on the property which I can’t say for sure what they are all used for.

There are no photos from inside the dawdihaus. But let’s have a look inside the main home.

Inside the Home

Starting with the interior photo I showed you above. This is one of the main ground floor rooms. It has the family’s desk where home business is taken care of. Double doors open up into the next room.

And here we have that next room, which contains the modesta kitchen area, and long dining table. I spy a large coffee dispenser on one end of it.

You see many of the typical notes of a Swarztentruber home, from the dishware to the neatly arranged pots and cooking utensils to the wall clock and calendar.

And here’s another angle of the room in the first photo. Those rockers look sturdy and made more comfy with the addition of the quilt-style covering. This is a group which doesn’t use upholstered furniture, like you will see in many “higher” Amish homes.

Another thing that strikes me about this home is the appearance of the flooring. It’s much nicer than in many Swartzentruber homes. The material standards in this group are relatively fancier than in some other Swartzentruber communities.

There are several bedroom photos. First, one with a crib, suggesting this is where the parents also sleep.

Here’s a boys’ room, shared by several brothers. It looks like at some point someone here had a successful raccoon hunt.

And a girls’ room.

There aren’t too many interior photos here, but the ones we see are really nice.

Outside

Back outside, you can see buildings contain the family business or businesses. The open carriage here which lacks the SMV triangle. In lieu of that there is a pattern of reflective tape laid out on the back.

A barn in that wonderful crisp shade of red which this group uses for its outbuildings.

And the front of the long building, which is a workshop.

Looking inside, there appear to be at least two different operations here. This first one looks like a leather worker’s shop.

And the second is woodworking of some sort.

Here’s a low aerial view of the surrounding farm. They happened to be bringing in corn that day.

And another great image from the real estate marketing perspective, outlining the property lot lines. We see all the buildings, and you can locate the field from the above photo in the back section. What you see here is roughly 36 acres. They did a really nice job presenting this property.

So what is the price for this picture-perfect, Minnesota Amish farm property?

This one is on the market at $675,000, represented by Stephanie Gulbranson of Edina Realty. That price reflects both the nice-sized acreage and the quality and number of buildings here.

For the right Amish family, this would be a no-brainer purchase – set up just as they need. For a non-Amish buyer, it would indeed make an interesting “homesteading” opportunity as suggested in the description.

It would take some work if you wanted to add electricity and plumbing. But what a nice place this appears to be.

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4 Comments

  1. Guy in Ohio

    Even though this is Minnesotas largest community, Harmony only has 6 church districts so I’m not surprised that this is listed online. Looking at the pictures I get the sense that this family is well off. I wonder if one of their businesses has anything to do with horse drawn plows considering they have 5 lined up outside their workshop. One last thing, the description says the property has an “established orchard”…I’m not seeing anything that looks like an orchard to me in the pictures.

    1. Erik Wesner

      I noticed that too. Maybe they deal farm implements as a third business. Some of these guys have a lot of sidelines going on.

      Your term “well off” fits, one of the most well off-looking homes I’ve seen in this group.

      1. Guy in Ohio

        I have heard that some Amish become pretty savvy businessmen. When looking at the interior pictures the word fancy almost comes to mind, at least in a conservative kind of way.

  2. Al in Ky

    I was raised not too far from the Canton, Mn., area and have been to that Amish community many times in past years, but not recently. Two of my cousins and I were occasional customers of the store pictured on this post. We called it “Lovina’s Store” because it was operated by an Amish woman named Lovina, who I also remember as being a scribe for The Budget newspaper and regularly sent in news from the Canton area Amish.
    My cousins and I and other non-Amish always referred to the area as the “Harmony Amish”, but I have heard many Swartzentruber Amish from Ky/Ind/Tn who visit the area call it the “Fillmore Settlement” (referring to Fillmore County where Canton & Harmony are located). The area is beautiful with many rolling hills and is part of what Minnesotans call the “Mississippi River Bluff Country”.