Rowan Oak

William Faulkner House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Mississippi Landmark
Rowan Oak
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Location	Old Taylor Road, Oxford, Mississippi
Coordinates	34°21′35″N 89°31′29″W / 34.3598°N 89.5247°W / 34.3598; -89.5247
Built	1844
Architect	Col. Robert Sheegog
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	68000028
USMS No.	071-OXF-0502-NHL-ML
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 23, 1968[3]
Designated NHL	May 23, 1968[2]
Designated USMS	January 15, 1986[1]

Rowan Oak was the home of author William Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi. It is a primitive Greek Revival house built in the 1840s by Colonel Robert Sheegog, an Irish immigrant planter from Tennessee. Faulkner purchased the house when it was in disrepair in 1930 and did many of the renovations himself. Other renovations were done in the 1950s. One of its more famous features is the outline of Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Fable, penciled in graphite and red on the plaster walls of his office. It is now owned and operated by the University of Mississippi as a museum, and is open to visitors year-round.