The courthouse in Jefferson sits at the center of Courthouse Square, which sits at the center of the town of Jefferson and the county of Yoknapatawpha. As a location it appears in most of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fictions. Absalom, Absalom! describes the Square at several different periods.
The Coldfield house in Jefferson is small, with "two storeys" (6). During Rosa's childhood it was a "dim grim tight little house" (55), but doubtless well-maintained, with its "brick walk" (36) and "small, grimly middleclass yard or lawn" (15). By 1909, when Quentin spends an afternoon with her in the "dim hot airless room" that she calls the "office because her father called it that" (3), the house is "unpainted and a little shabby" (6). It began falling into decay after Mr.
