O. Henry House Museum (San Antonio) at the corner of Dolorosa and Laredo Street in Downtown San Antonio. It re-opened as a museum in 1999. While living here, Porter wrote several short stories set in San Antonio. These included "Fog in Santone", "The Higher Abdication", and "Hygeia at the Solito". O. Henry House Museum (San Antonio) The O. Henry House Museum is a historic house museum located in San Antonio, Texas. It is named for the American writer, William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry who lived in the house in 1885. The O. Henry House museum was initially built by John Kush, a German
William Field Porter England). He abandoned the settlement in 1840. Although Porter’s tenure in Port Lincoln only lasted 18 months, he had, nevertheless, been appointed the first Magistrate of the Eyre Peninsula and his family left its name at 'Porter Bay'. In May 1841, Porter arrived in [[Auckland]], New Zealand. He built a house and store on Auckland's waterfront and commenced trading from there with stock brought on the "Porter". He also invested in land in and around Auckland and bought interests in land claims from before 1840. Later he developed a farm at [[Kohimarama]]. In 1841 Governor [[William Hobson|Willam Hobson]] appointed Porter