University of Virginia Library

WILLIAM FAULKNER HOUSE

The President reminded the Board of the recent purchase of the property known as Old Ivy Inn
and proposed that the main house and the associated structures be named for the late William
Faulkner

The following resolution was adopted

RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia that
the main house and the associated structures previously known as Old Ivy Inn be and they are hereby
named William Faulkner House in honor of the late William Faulkner, former Writer-in-Residence and
former Balch Lecturer in American Literature at the University