Katherine Anne Porter House

The Katherine Anne Porter House is a historic house located in Kyle, Texas. It was built in 1890 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The house is the childhood home of writer Katherine Anne Porter. It was restored and turned into a short-lived museum at the instigation of Bill Johnson, executive director of the Burdine Johnson Foundation, and Tom Grimes, then-director of the Texas State University MFA program.^[2]

Katherine Anne Porter House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Porter House in 2009
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Location	508 W. Center St., Kyle, Texas
Coordinates	29°59′21″N 97°52′46″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1890 (1890)
Architectural style	L-plan
Website	kapliterarycenter.com
MPS	Rural Properties of Hays County, Texas MPS
NRHP reference No.	04000893[1]
Added to NRHP	August 20, 2004

The house is now home to the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, which hosts readings from the Porter collections at the Wittliff collections, located on the seventh floor of the Albert B. Alkek Library at Texas State University.

The Center is open to visitors by appointment.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places portal
• Texas portal

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Hays County, Texas

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Gerald E. McLeod (December 18, 2009). "Day Trips Texas-born Pulitzer Prize-winning author Katherine Anne Porter left a literary legacy". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved October 28, 2014.