Index

A

Absalom, Absalom ! (Faulkner): French architect of, 83 ;

genre of, 75 ;

original title of, 1 ;

publishing date of, 142 ;

site of wedding in, 78 ;

Sutpen's Hundred of, 54 , 67 , 69 ;

Sutpen's visit to New Orleans in, 11 ;

Yoknapatawpha map in, 62

Acropolis, 46

Aeschylus, 74

African-American working-class houses (fig. 18), 30

Airliewood, Holly Springs (plate 8), xxii , 79

Allegheny County Courthouse (Pittsburgh), 95

Anderson, Sherwood, 9 , 11

antique reproductions, 119 -20

The Antiquities of Athens (Stuart and Revert), 46

Archibald, W. L., 89

Architectural Forum , 6

architecture:

emotions evoked by, 65 , 67 ;

ethnocentric interpretation of, 78 ;

Faulkner on importance of, 1 ;

Faulkner's literary use of, 15 ;

Faulkner's ultimate statement on, 122 , 124 , 127 ;

folk building, 24 -44;

Gothic, 79 ;

Italianate, 81 -85;

landscape and structure of, 78 -79;

modernist, 103 -21;

mood and detail of, 9 ;

neoclassical/Greek Revival, 45 -74, 148 n3;

neo-Gothic, 76 , 79 ;

organic, 76 ;

postbellum, 88 -102;

Richardsonian Romanesque, 95 ;

of The Sound and the Fury churches, 33 ;

symbology of, 2 , 67 , 69 , 100 , 102 ;

time and, 5

The Architecture of Country Houses (Downing), 78

Armstead Chapel, C. M. E. Church, Oxford (fig. 32), 43

As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 29

Avant, Tomlin, 59

Avant-Stone House (fig. 43), 58 , 59

Avent Acres, Oxford (fig. 90), 120

B

Bachelard, Gaston, 4

Bailey Junior High School (fig. 80), 106 , 107

Bailey's Woods, 142

Balloon frame house, 27

"Barn Burning" (Faulkner), 32 , 65

Barnard, Frederick A. P., 9 , 76 , 78 , 85

Barnard Observatory (fig. 3), 6 , 8

Barringer, Paul, 94

Bauhaus, School of Design, Dessau, Germany, 107

Beanland, Edward, 105

Beanland-Young House (fig. 77), 104 , 105 ;

interior (fig. 78), 104

"A Bear Hunt" (Faulkner), 23

Benbow, Horace (fictional character), 117

Benbow, Narcissa (fictional character), 4

Benjamin, Asher, 46

Bergson, Henri, 4

Blotner, Joseph, 136 , 138 , 146

Bon, Charles (fictional character), 11

Bonner, Sherwood, 79

Brown, Andrew, 97 , 136 , 139 -40

Brown, Maggie, 4

Brown, Ross, 4

Buford-Heddleston House (fig. 47), 66

Bundren, Addie (fictional character), 29

Burnham, Daniel, 103

Butler, Charles (great-grandfather), 49

Butterfield, William, 89

C

Cambridge Camden Society, 76

Canizaro, James T., 106 -7, 109

Canizaro's apartment house, 109

Carothers, Samuel, 27

Carothers-Isom House (fig. 16), 28

Carter, Robert "King," 54

Carter, Robert Otway, 54

Carter, Willie Medora Falkner, 97 , 139 -40

Carter-Hines House (fig. 102), 97 , 139 , 140 -141

Carter-Tate House (fig. 38), 52 , 53 , 54

Cedar Hill Farm (fig. 44), 59 -60

Cedarhurst, Bonner-Belk House (fig. 57), 79 , 80

Cedar Oaks House, 54

The Cedars (fictional house), 63

Cemetery Statue of Colonel W. C. Falkner (fig. 11), 20

Central Park (New York), 83

Chandler, Edwin Dial, 54 , 56

Chandler, Josiah, 54

Chesley Hines House (fig. 99), 81 , 135

Chicago School of architecture, 103 , 105

Chickasaw Indians, 21

Chickasaw mounds, 116

Chisholm, John, 23

City Hall, Oxford (figs. 81, 82), 108 , 109 , 111

Clearwater (fictional town), 63

Coldfield, Ellen (fictional character), 78

College Church (fig. 34), 47 -48, 81

College Hill Store (fig. 19), 31 , 32

Columbia High School (fig. 79), 106

Compson appendix (The Portable Faulkner ), 2 , 30 , 32

Compson, Benjamin (Benjy) (fictional character), 56 , 124

Compson, Candace (Caddy) (fictional character), 32

Compson, Jason (fictional character), 32 , 69

Compson, Quentin (fictional character), 33 , 111

Concise History of American Architecture (Roth), 79

Confederate Monuments (figs. 9, 10, 71, 95), 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 96 , 126 , 140

Cook, Minerva Hynes, 4

Corotoman (plantation house), 54

Cottage Residences (Downing), 78

Country store architecture, 30 -44

County courthouse (Oxford/Jefferson Square), 48 -50

County Map of Mississippi (fig. 97), 130

Courthouse Square (figs. 36, 74, 89), 50 , 99 , 118

Cowley, Malcolm, 2 , 75

Craftsman-style houses, 105

Craig, David, 27

Craig, John J., 23

Cramer, Charles B., 60

Crusaders, 145

Culley, John C., 54

Culley, Nina Somerville, 54

Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 94 , 117

D

D. H. Burnham and Company, 106

D. Pointer and Company (figs. 22-26), 32 , 35 -37, 39

Dandridge, Dr. (fictional character), 63

Dark House (discarded Faulkner title), 1

Davis, Alexander Jackson, 78 -79

dogrun house, 25

dogtrot house (plates 2, 3; figs. 14, 15, 17), xvi , xvii , 25 , 26 , 27 , 29

double pen house, 25

Downing, Andrew Jackson, 78 -79, 83 , 85 , 89

Downing-Davis house, 79

Drake, Temple (fictional character), 9 , 33 , 64

"Dull Tale" (Faulkner), 111

E

Eastlake, Charles, 89

The Ecclesiologist (publication), 76

Edgecombe (House), 89

Einstein, Albert, 3

Eliot, T. S., 103

Elma Meek House (fig. 41), 56

"Elmer" (Faulkner), 9

Episcopal Rectory, Columbus, Mississippi (fig. 56), 80

Erikson, Erik, 3

Estes House (fig. 52), 72 ;

stairhall (fig. 53), 73

F

Falkner, Effie, 97

Falkner House (figs. 73, 101), 97 , 98 , 139

Falkner, John Wesley Thompson (grandfather), 135

Falkner, Maud (mother), 141 , 145 -46

Falkner, Mrs. J. W. T. (grandmother), 16

Falkner, Murry (brother), 7

Falkner, Holland Pearce (great-grandmother), 132 -35

Falkner, William Clark (great-grandfather), 6 , 95 -96, 131 , 135 -36, 138 -40

Falkner, William Cuthbert (birth name), 6 . See also William Faulkner

Falkner-Thurmond feud, 136

Faulkner, Dean (niece), 143 -45

Faulkner, Estelle Oldham (wife), 48 , 94 , 142

Fa[u]lkner, John (brother), 7 , 56 , 92 , 94 , 144 , 146

Faulkner, William: antimodernist bias of, 103 -21;

architectural symbology used by, 2 , 67 , 69 ;

author's recollections of, 141 -46;

childhood experiences of, 140 -41;

death/burial of, 146 -47;

early life/travels of, 6 , 9 ;

family connections of author and, 132 -33;

on importance of architecture, 1 -2;

obsession with time, 3 -4;

photographed with brothers/cousin, 7 ;

symbolic use of count)' courthouse by, 48 -50;

ultimate statement on architecture by, 122 , 124 , 127

Federal Courthouse (Oxford Square), 94 -95

First Lafayette County Courthouse (fig. 35), 48

First Presbyterian Church (fig. 70), 94 , 95

flood-control project (Sardis Lake), 112

folk architecture, 24 -44

"four-square" houses, 105

Freedonia Church (fig. 59), 81 , 82 ;

interior (fig. 60), 83

French architect (fictional character), 72 , 83

French Baroque architecture, 88 -89

French Quarter, New Orleans (fig. 5), 12

Frenchman's Bend (fictional hamlet), 62

Friendship house (fictional house), 63

Funeral monuments:

of Chickasaw Indians, 21 ;

in Mississippi towns, 21 -23

G

"Golden Land" (Faulkner), 119

Goodwin and Brown's Commissary (fig. 21), 34

Gothic architecture, 79

Gothic novel genre, 75

Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White, 106

Greek Revival architecture: examples of, 46 -48, 79 ;

Faulkner's use of, 48 -52;

gothic novel genre and, 75 ;

revival of, 45 -46;

small one-storey houses of, 65 . See also architecture

Greek tragedies, 74 -75

Grenier, Louis (fictional character), 64

Grierson, Miss Emily (fictional character), 100

Gropius, Walter, 107

H

The Hamlet (Faulkner), 1 , 27 , 32 , 64 -65, 67 , 83

Handy, W. C., 94

Hardy, Thomas, 2

Haussmann, Georges, 88

Heaven Trees house, 92

Heaven Trees (Young), 63

The Hermitage, 62

High Victorian Gothic architecture, 89 -102

Hines Chesley, 135 -36

Hines Elizabeth Harris, 135 -36

Hines Mattie Spight, 132 , 141

Hines Polly Pope, 146 -47

Hines Taylor Spight, 131

Hines Thomas Spight, 131

Hines William, 140 -43

Hines-Falkner family connections, 132 -36

Hints on Household Taste (Eastlake), 89

History:

commitment to time in, 3 -4;

fiction vs., 3

History of Tippah County, Mississippi (Brown), 136

Holbrook, Stewart H., 136

Holley Garage (fig. 83), 109 , 110

Hollywood, 119

Howry-Wright House, 59

Hume, Branham, 108

I

Indian mounds (figs. 12, 13), 22 , 116

International Style buildings, 105 -6

Intruder m the Dust (Faulkner), 32 , 102

Isom, Thomas Dudley, 27

"Italian villa" (Falkner House, Ripley), 97 , 138 -39

Italianate architecture, 81 -85

J

J. E. Neilson Company, 32

Jackson, Andrew, 62

James, Henry, 2

Jefferson (fictional town):

county courthouse in, 48 -51;

prototypes for, 47 ;

symbolism of architecture in, 127

Jefferson Square (fictional), 49

Jefferson, Thomas, 46 , 127

Johnson, Andrew, 92

Johnssen, Anders, 92

Jones House (plate 4), xviii

Joyce, James, 2 , 103

K

Kerr, Elizabeth, 4

Kimbrough, Duke, 94

Knight's Gambit (Faulkner), 3 , 29 , 65 , 78

L

Laemmle, Carl, 119

Lafayette County Courthouse (figs. 35, 37), 48 -51

Lafayette, Marquis de, 23

Lamar Street: North (fig. 91), 123 ;

South (fig. 92), 123

Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, 59

Latham, James, 24

Latrobe, Benjamin, 46

law office of Phil Stone (fig. 72), 95 , 96

Lewin, Albert, 119

Lewis, Will, 108

Library of Congress, 89

Light m August (Faulkner), 1

Lindfield (home of David Craig), 27

literary modernism, 103 , 105

The Little Brick Church (Falkner), 138 -39

log cabin, 24

log house, 24

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 79

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 78

Los Angeles, 119

Lyceum Building (fig. 2), 8 , 46 -47

M

McArthur, John, 89

McCready, John, "Oxford on the Hill" (plate 1), xv

McGee, Dorothy, 143

McGehee, John Scott, 82

Machine Age images, 105

McKinney, Virginia Hines, 132

McLean, Alabama Falkner, 143

The Magnolias (fig. 48), 65 , 66 , 138 -39

Main building, Memphis Airport (fig. 85), 112

Main Street, Memphis (fig. 86), 113

Mallison, Chick, 3

Mansardic architecture, 88 -89

The Mansion (Faulkner), 1 , 27 , 119 -20

maps: of Mississippi (fig. 97), 130 ;

of Oxford (fig. 96), 128 -29;

of Yoknapatawpha County (fig. 8), 14 , 62

Marshall Field Wholesale Store (Chicago), 95

Martin, John D., 23 , 54

Mayes, Edward, 59

Meek, Elma, 56

Memorial Hall (Harvard), 89

Memory House (fig. 69), 92 , 93 , 94

Memphis Airport, 111 -12

Men Working (John Faulkner), 146

Milan Cathedral (fig. 4), 10

Millgate, Michael, 27 -28

Miner, Ward, 111

"Mississippi" (Faulkner), 21 , 23 , 116

Mississippi Governor's Mansion, 47

Mississippi State Capitol, 47

Mitchell, Henry, 107

modernist architecture:

examples of, 104 -20;

rise of, 103 , 105 . See also architecture

Moore, John, 145

Mosquitoes (Faulkner), 1 , 9 , 127

Mullett, Alfred B., 89

N

Neilson, William S., 54

Neilson-Culley House (plate 6), xx , 54

neo-Gothic architecture, 76 , 79

neoclassical/neo-Gothic architecture, 81 , 148 n3

Neutra, Richard, 119

New Valois airport (fictional), 111

Nichols, William, 9 , 47 , 59

novelistic architecture, 2

O

Old Federal Building, Oxford (plate 10), xxiv

Old Frenchman Place (fictional house), 62 , 64 -65, 67

Old Library (fig. 71), 95 , 96

"Old Man" (Faulkner), 23

Old Shipp Place, 59 -60, 62

Oldham, Dorothy, 141

Oldham, Lemuel, 94

Oldhem, Lida, 94

"Ole Miss," 56

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 83 , 85

organic architecture, 76

Overstreet and Town (architects), 107

Oxford:

antebellum homes of, 52 -62;

author's recollections of, 131 -32;

Faulkner's immortalization of, 33 , 78 ;

modernist architecture of, 103 -21;

postbellum architecture of, 88 -102. See also Jefferson

Oxford City Hall, 106

Oxford Fire Department, 108

Oxford jail (fig. 76), 101

Oxford Square (fig. 7), 13 , 17 , 49 , 122 -27

P

Palladio, Andrea, 45 , 65

Pearce, Holland (great-grandmother), 132 -35

Pegues House (plate 9; figs. 61, 62), xxiii , 81 , 83 , 84 ;

double parlors of (fig. 63), 86 ;

front porch of (fig. 64), 87

Pegues, Thomas, 85

Penn, William, 89

Philadelphia City Hall, 89

Piazza del Duomo, Milan, 9

The Poetics of Space (Bachelard), 4

Pond, Charles, 68

Popeye (fictional character), 64 , 111

The Portable Faulkner (edited by Cowley), 2 , 30 , 32

possumtrot house, 25

postbellum architecture, 88 -89

Practical Home Carpenter (Benjamin), 46

Prairie School, 103 , 105

Prall, Elizabeth, 62

"Preacher Green" (painting by Maud Falkner), 146

Proust, Marcel, 32

"Psychological Reality and Historical Actuality" (Erikson), 3

Pylon (Faulkner), 1 , 111

R

Ramey, J. O., 94

Ramey, Lucille, 94

Rapid Ramblings in Europe (Faulkner), 97 , 138

Ratliff, V. K. (fictional character), 65

The Reivers (Faulkner), 145

Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), 32

Requiem for a Nun (Faulkner), 16 , 19 , 47 -50, 69 , 83 , 117 , 119 , 120

Revett, Nicholas, 46

Richardson, H. H., 95

Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, 95

Ripley, 131 -32

Ripley cemetery, 131

Ritz Theater, 109

River House (Young), 64

Robert Taylor House (fig. 68), 93

Roberts, Charles, 89

Roberts-Neilson House (fig. 65), 89 , 90

Root, John, 103

"A Rose for Emily" (Faulkner), 56 , 100

Rosedale hospital, 106

Roth, Leland, 45 , 79

Rowan Oak, 142

Ruskin, John, 89

Ruth's Dress Shop (fig. 84), 109 , 110

Ruzicka, William, 2 , 69

S

Saddleback house, 25

St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans (fig. 6), 12

St. Peter's Episcopal Church (plate 7; fig. 54), xx , 76 , 77 , 85 ;

interior of (fig. 55), 77

Sanctuary (Faulkner), 1 , 9 , 33 , 56 , 64 , 67 , 111 , 117

Sardis Dam and Sardis Lake (fig. 87), 112 , 114 , 116

Sartoris, Bayard (fictional character), 67

Sartoris, Colonel John (fictional character), 19 , 49 , 131 -33

Sartoris, Benbow (fictional character), 29 -30, 78

Sartoris (Faulkner), 4 , 15 , 19 , 67 , 100 , 122 , 124 , 131 , 133

Sartoris (fictional house), 65 , 67 , 69

Second Empire architecture, 88 -89

Second Lafayette County Courthouse (figs. 37, 94), 51 , 125

Selected Letters (Blotner), 146

Sheegog-Faulkner House, Rowan Oak (Faulkner's home) (fig. 42), 27 , 56 , 57 , 59

Shingle Style house designs, 105

Ship Island, Ripley, and Kentucky Railroad, 135

Shipp, Felix Grundy, 59

Shipp House (plate 5; fig. 45), xviii , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62

Shipp, Martha, 62

Simon Spight House (fig. 98), 81 , 134

Skipwith, Kate, 89

Skipwith, Peyton, 89

Smith House (fig. 67), 91 , 92

Smithmeyer and Pelz, 89

Snopes, Flem (fictional character), 28

Snopes, Mink (fictional character), 27 -28

Snopes, Sarty (fictional character), 65

So Red the Rose (Young), 64

Sommerville, Ella, 112

Soto, Hernando de, 21

The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner), 33 , 56 , 111 , 124 -25, 127

Southern Sentinel , 97 , 138

space:

layering of interior, 67 ;

time and, 4

Spencer, Elizabeth, 100

Spight, Ira, 132

Spight, Lindsey Donelson, 132

Spight, Nancy, 132 -33

Spight, Simon, 132 -34

Spight, Simon Reynolds, 133

Spight, Thomas (1779-1857), 132

Spight, Thomas (1841-1924), 97 , 136 , 138 -39

Spight, Tucker, 138

Spight-Falkner family connections, 132 -34

Spratling, William, 6

State, War, and Navy Building, 89

Stickley, Gustav, 105

Stone, James, 59

Stone, Phil, 59 , 62 , 95

Stores (fig. 20), 34 ;

county stores, 30 -44;

and warehouses of Como (fig. 28), 40

The Story of American Railroads (Holbrook), 136

Stowers-Longest House (fig. 66), 89 , 90

Streamlined Moderne style, 105 -6

Stuart, James, 46

Sullivan, Louis, 103 , 105

Sullivan, William, 95

Sutpen, Henry (fictional character), 11

Sutpen, Thomas (fictional character), 54 , 69 , 72 -73, 78

Sutpen's Hundred (fictional plantation house), 49 , 54 , 67 , 69 , 73 , 75 , 112

symbolism:

architectural, 2 , 67 , 69 , 100 , 102 ;

of clockwise direction, 124 ;

of county courthouse, 48 -50;

of decline, 74 ;

of Greek Revival homes, 52 ;

of Jefferson architecture, 127 ;

of magnolia trees (Sartoris house), 54 ;

of Old Frenchman Place, 64 ;

of postwar New South anxieties, 100 ;

of Sutpen's house, 69

T

Tait, George, 63 , 92

Tait House (fig. 46), 63 , 67

Tate, Henry L., 54

Taylor, Obedience Pointer, 92

Taylor, Robert, 92

Thompson, Jacob, 54 , 56

Thompson, Lucretia ("Lula"), 54

Thompson, William, 54

Thompson-Chandler House (figs. 39, 40), 55

Thurmond, Richard J., 132 , 136 , 140

time:

architecture and, 5 ;

history and, 3 -4;

space and, 4

Tippah County Confederate Veterans Reunion (fig. 100), 137

topoanalysis, 4

The Torches Flare (Young), 63

Torgerson, G. M., 89 -90, 92 , 94

"Trail of Tears" (Chickasaw relocation), 21

Train Station, Como (figs. 30, 31, 33), 42 , 44

Train Station, Oxford (fig. 29), 41

Treaty of Pontotoc (1832), 21

Trigg-Doyle-Falkner House (fig. 1), 7

Trinity Church (Boston), 95

Trinity Church (New York), 76

Turner, Elizabeth, 52

Turner, Samuel, 52

Turner, William, xx , 52 -53, 57 , 59 , 63 , 85 , 94

two pens and a passage house, 25

U

Upjohn, Richard, xx , 76 , 85 , 89

Upjohn's Rural Architecture (Upjohn), 76

V

Van Buren Avenue, Oxford (fig. 88), 116

Varner, Will (fictional character), 64 -65

Vaux, Calvert, xxiii , 83 -85

Vegetable Market, Courthouse Square, Oxford (fig. 93), 124

Villas and Cottages (Vaux), 83

von Sternberg, Josef, 119

W

Walter Place (fig. 58), 81

Ware and Van Brunt, 89

Warehouses of Como (fig. 27), 40

Wasson, Ben, 6

Waverly House (fig. 49), 67 , 68

Welty, Eudora, 1

West, Nathanael, 119

White, Hayden, 3

The White Rose of Memphis (Falkner), 138 -39

Wiley, Yancy, 59

Wilkins, Sally Murry (cousin), 7

William Faulkner and Southern History (Williamson), 133

Williams, Robert X., 108

Williamson, Joel, 2 , 133 , 136 , 138

Willis, Sloan, and Trigg, 102 , 125

Windsor House (figs. 50, 51), 69 , 70 , 71

The World of William Faulkner (Miner), 111

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 103

Y

Yoknapatawpha (fictional county):

history of, 108 ;

county courthouse of, 49 ;

description of passage to, 122 , 124 ;

folk architecture of, 24 -44;

gender domains within, 32 -33;

Gothic Revival architecture of, 45 -74;

Greek Revival architecture of, 45 -74;

Indian mounds of, 21 -23;

jail, 100 -101;

maps of, 14 , 62 ;

modernist architecture of, 103 -21;

naming of, 23 ;

postbellum architecture of, 88 -102;

public sculpture of, 16 -20. See also Oxford; Jefferson; Lafayette County

Young, Patricia Brown, 4

Young, Stark, 62 -64, 81 , 92