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 Archer Porter William Archer Porter William Archer Porter (c. 1825 - d. 16 July 1890) was a British lawyer and educationist who served as the Principal of Government Arts College, Kumbakonam and tutor and secretary to the Maharaja of Mysore. Porter was born in Drumlee, Castlewellan, Co. Down , Ireland in the year 1825, the eldest son of Rev. James Porter, Presbyterian Minister, and the brother of (1) James Porter (Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge), (2) Jane Bailie Porter, who married Alexander Crum Brown, the Scottish organic chemist and (3) Margaret Archer Porter, who married Peter Tait (physicist). He was educated at Glasgow