Author William Sydney Porter rented the adobe brick house in 1885 and wrote three short stories set in San Antonio while in the city.
The O. Henry house is being moved from the corner of Dolorosa and South Laredo streets to a parcel next door to the Casa Navarro State Historic Site on Saturday.The adobe brick house in which short story author O. Henry lived in 1885, writing three tales set in San Antonio, will be picked up and moved — again.
In 1960, the brewery bought the house from the Conservation Society for $1. Later, new owners Mary Friedrich Rogers and Wallace Rogers maintained it as part of the Buckhorn Museum collection when the brewery closed in 1997. Weston Urban later revised that plan and sought permission to restore the De La Garza House, letting it stay where it was built in 1775 and incorporating it into the development. But the author’s home would have to move.
As with the home of Texas patriot José Antonio Navarro, the author’s home will be overseen by the Texas Historical Commission. Other plans for the house have not been finalized, said a university spokeswoman.
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