Here we have an “ultra-basic” Amish home in the Swartzentruber community at Cynthiana, Kentucky (Harrison County). It’s a small, very plain Amish community of under 100 people, and it looks like one of the families here is selling their home and moving away.
As in a lot of cases, in these smaller communities Amish will list their homes in hopes of attracting a non-Amish buyer. That’s because the pool of potential Amish buyers, by definition, in such small settlements is limited.
And this would be a home for someone that doesn’t mind a true “off grid living” vibe, or is willing to “Englishize” this home (ie, install electricity – and plumbing, in this case).
Plenty of people do that, and you can find homes online that were obviously originally Amish builds, which have been modernized in such ways.
This is one of the simplest of Amish homes, build with corrugated metal siding giving it a “workshop” look. Here’s the basic property description via Zillow:…