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Shipshewana, Indiana

Since 1891, people have been coming back.

20 shops, four floors, Monday through Saturday.

1891
The year it opened
370years
The age of the tree in the middle of it
1906
The carousel on the top floor
2million
People through the doors every year

A few of them

Every floor has something you would not expect to find in a town this size.

  • A painted mural sign reading JoJo’s Pretzels, made with love since 1989, showing a small girl in a red dress biting into a soft pretzel beside a basket of them
    Food & DrinkMercantile Family Store

    JoJo's Pretzels

    Known forHand rolled soft pretzels, and a fair claim to having put Shipshewana on the map. Ranked the number one restaurant in town on TripAdvisor.

  • Hundreds of rolled fabric bolts packed together, in florals, dots, stripes, and solids of every color
    Crafts & Fabrics

    Lolly's Fabrics

    Known for2,500 bolts of fabric and staff who will sit down and work out your problem with you.

  • Pastel blouses and a denim vest on hangers, each hand decorated with embroidered flowers and leaves
    Apparel & Accessories

    Shipshe Casuals

    Known forLocally hand decorated clothing, small through 3X.

  • A solid wood dining table with six chairs and a matching sideboard, staged on a patterned rug against a brick wall
    Furniture

    Weaver Furniture Sales

    Known forCustom Amish furniture in solid oak, cherry, walnut, hickory, and maple.

See all 20 shops

“If you want to welcome people, you give them a place to sit down.”
Alvin Miller

Since 1891

This building has a story

A crane holding the Douglas fir trunk upright against a clear winter sky, the Shipshewana water tower behind it, snow on the ground, and workers standing on the open deck of floor joists below
Setting the Douglas fir, December 2004.

The building went up in 1891 as a hotel by the train depot. It has been a chicken hatchery. In the 1960s it was moved down Main Street while the whole town stood and watched. In February of 2004 it burned to the ground, along with the rest of the block.

That August, the Amish community came and helped raise it back up. And the town it stands in is named for a Potawatomi chief who was marched off this land at gunpoint and walked home. That part is worth more than a paragraph, so we gave it a page.

Read the full history

Come see it

Open 10am to 5pm

Monday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm

Closed Sunday

255 East Main Street

Shipshewana, Indiana 46565

260-768-7300

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