Rowan Oak
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Rowan Oak was the home of author William Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi. It is a primitive Greek Revival house originally built in 1844 for Robert B Sheegog, an Irish immigrant farmer from Tennessee.
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Faulkner wrote the plot outline of his 1954 novel A Fable on the walls of his office at Rowan Oak.
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Dogtrot house
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The dogtrot, also known as a breezeway house, dog-run, or possum-trot, is a style of house that was common throughout the Southeastern United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Some theo
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…there until 1923. Around the turn of the century, Julia Bailey added an indoor kitchen and pantry, a front porch, and a bathroom; she also enclosed a dogtrot hallway in the servants' area. The property had been unoccupied for seven years before William Faulkner purchased it in 1930. In 1931, he renamed it "Rowan…
One of several dogtrot houses formerly used as slave quarters at the plantation of Thornhill near Forkland, Alabama. This photograph was taken in 1934; the dwelling was subsequently destroyed. Note the split-shingle roof and stick-and-mud chimney.
Creole row house with dogtrot, New Orleans
The John Looney House, Ashville, Alabama, in 2010
The Autrey House, Dubach, Louisiana, in 2011