A five-bay, wood-frame double-pile house with a tetrastyle monumental portico of square box columns. Built for early settler Robert Sheegog, William Faulkner acquired the house in 1930 and resided there until his death in 1962. The Faulkner family gave the property to the University of Mississippi in 1963, and it has been open to the public ever since. "Rowan Oak" was designated a National Historic Landmark (and thereby listed on the National Register) on 23 May 1968. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark on 15 January 1986. It is included in "Shrines to Yesterday" (1968), "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (pp.146-147), "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume II: Columbus and the North" (1977) (p. 116), "The State of Mississippi – Historic Properties" (1982) (p. 15), "Faulkners, Fortunes, and Flames" (1984) (pp. 56-61), "The Majesty of the Mississippi Delta" (2002) (p.91), "Great Houses of Mississippi" (2004) (pp. 37-39), and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (pp. 153-154, NC24). [HABS: MS-248 (1975)] |