Iowa - High/W./S. Amana

High, West, and South Amanas



The journey starts in Amana proper at the visitors' center and museums, so tourists typically head west and pass through Middle Amana on their way to High Amana, seen here. Highway 220 is a recommended route that takes travelers through five of the seven Colonies without following back roads. But to see these old buildings, you'll have to exit the main road and travel up a block to G Street.


The fruits of that brief loop through town include the 1857 High Amana Store.


I come back to Highway 220 on 13th Avenue across from the Amana Society of Farms and Forestry. Unlike homes, farm buildings were not built with brick, so it's possible these are original (maintained or restored) structures.


Continuing west toward West Amana. With only about two miles between each of the colonies, there's only room for about two farms along the way.


The historic houses of West Amana. To see these, take 220th Street or 8th Avenue and poke around to the north.


This collection of sundries is on 7th Avenue.


Highway 220 curves south and enters South Amana, the last one on the route. There's a barn on the right but a much more interesting arn on the left. I've scoured the Internet and I think this is the world's only collection of arn artifacts.


The rest of the Henry Moore Barn (or Arn) Museum along P Street.


Jaunting around South Amana, starting at Lower South Hotel (also on P Street, which is clearly where the good things are). If the tall fences you see are supposed to be trellises, the one in the second photo is doing a poor job of attracting the ivy (which will destroy the old bricks in due time).

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