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Porter House in 2009
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| 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 / 29.98917; -97.87944 (Porter, Katherine Anne, House) |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1890 (1890) |
| Architectural style | L-plan |
| Website | kapliterarycenter |
| MPS | Rural Properties of Hays County, Texas MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 04000893[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 20, 2004 |
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]
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 LibraryatTexas State University.
The Center is open to visitors by appointment.
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