Katherine Anne Porter House
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Katherine Anne Porter House | |
 Porter House in 2009 | |
  Katherine Anne Porter House  Katherine Anne Porter House | |
| Location | 508 W. Center St., Kyle, Texas |
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| Coordinates | 29°59′21″N 97°52′46″W / 29.98917°N 97.87944°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1890 |
| Architectural style | L-plan |
| Website | kapliterarycenter |
| NRHP reference No. | 04000893[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 20, 2004 |
The Katherine Anne Porter House is the childhood home of writer Katherine Anne Porter. Located in Kyle, Texas, it was built in 1890 by Porter's widowed grandmother. Porter's father moved his family to his mother's house after the death of his wife in 1892. The family lived in the house until 1902, being cared for by her grandmother until her death in 1901. The house passed through successive owners over the years until it fell into disrepair. In 1997, the house was purchased, restored and established as a museum dedicated to Katherine Anne Porter. The house was designated a National Literary Landmark in 2002 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
Katherine Anne Porter was born in 1890 to Mary Alice (Jones) and Harrison Porter in Indian Creek, Texas.[2] : 38 Her family, which included an older brother and sister, lived in a two-room log cabin on their small farm. In 1892, Porter's mother died two months after the birth of her third daughter. Harrison Porter sold his farm and moved his newly expanded family to the home of his widowed mother, Catherine Anne Porter, in Kyle, Texas.[3] Porter and her family lived with her grandmother, "Aunt Cat", in her small, cramped house for the next ten years. Aunt Cat died in 1901 and the family stayed in her house until it was sold in 1902.[3][4]
