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Baeckerei Bed and Breakfast
The Baeckerei was built in 1860 and served as th...
Barn Museum and Communal Agriculture Museum
Located in two restored barns from Amana's commu...
High Amana Cemetery
The Amana Colony cemeteries were all laid out...
Amana Arts Guild Center
Once the High Amana church, this building now...
High Amana Farm Complex
Dominating the landscape of the Amana Colonie...
Communal Kitchen and Coppershop Museum
The Ruedy Küche (kitchen house), built in 186...
Roger’s Anvil/Industrial Machine Shop Museum
On the backside of the woolen mill, the machi...
Colony Inn Restaurant
The Amana Colonies have always been a popular...
Mill Race
Between 1865 and 1869, the Amana Colonists bu...
Die Heimat Country Inn
Homestead is unlike the other Amana villages ...
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Baeckerei Bed and Breakfast
The Baeckerei was built in 1860 and served as the communal bakery for South Amana for many years. Each village in the Colonies had bakeries to supply bread every day to each kitchen in the village. Horse drawn wagons ...
Barn Museum and Communal Agriculture Museum
Located in two restored barns from Amana's communal period, the Barn Museum and the neighboring Communal Agriculture Museum contain exhibits that reflect Amana's agricultural heritage. The Communal Agriculture Museum, which was once an ox barn or Ochsentall contains antique ...
High Amana Cemetery
The Amana Colony cemeteries were all laid out within a few years of the settlement of their respective villages with each of the cemeteries traditionally surrounded by a hedge of pine trees. Conifers were frequently planted in and around ...
Amana Arts Guild Center
Once the High Amana church, this building now serves as the Amana Arts Guild featuring arts and crafts from all seven Amana Colonies. Except for their size, Inspirationist churches were largely indistinguishable from residences, although unlike homes, they were ...
High Amana Farm Complex
Dominating the landscape of the Amana Colonies, the farm complex sat clustered at the edge of each village. High Amana, like the other Amana villages, was equipped with a complete farm complex, allowing the village to be nearly self-sufficient. ...
Communal Kitchen and Coppershop Museum
The Ruedy Küche (kitchen house), built in 1863, served up to 40 community members at each meal during the communal era and was one of about nine kitchen houses in Middle Amana. In the communal Amana Colonies no residents ...
Roger’s Anvil/Industrial Machine Shop Museum
On the backside of the woolen mill, the machine and locksmith shop occupied a building adjacent to the millwright's shop. The metal workers kept the metal components of the mill and farm machinery repaired, and they installed new technology ...
Colony Inn Restaurant
The Amana Colonies have always been a popular tourist spot, and even before the Reorganization of 1932, people visited the Amana villages out of curiosity about the communal society. The train, and later the automobile, greatly increased the number ...
Mill Race
Between 1865 and 1869, the Amana Colonists built a seven-mile-long canal stretching from the Iowa River near West Amana, through Middle Amana, then through Amana, and into Price Creek, just past town, where it continued to the river. They ...
Die Heimat Country Inn
Homestead is unlike the other Amana villages (established from 1856 to 1862) because settlers had arrived there prior to it being purchased by the Inspirationists. In 1860, knowing that plans called for the Rock Island Railroad to pass through ...
