The United States Court House and Post Office in Austin Texas in 1901
Architect James G. Hill designed the building, and it was constructed partially under the supervision of architect Abner Cook. The courthouse was completed in 1879 at a cost of $200,000.
It was acquired by the University of Texas System in 1968 and renamed for the author, who had previously resided nearby in what is now officially called the William Sidney Porter House, but is better known as the O. Henry House. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1970.[1] It previously served as the administrative headquarters of that system.[4]
TSUS purchased O. Henry Hall in 2015 for $8.2 million.[5] The UT System leased it and continued using it as its administrative headquarters prior to the 2017 completion of the UT System's current headquarters.[6] TSUS did the move so it could have a single administrative office in Downtown; it formerly occupied three different downtown buildings operated by the state government.[7]
^"Contact Us." Texas State University System. Retrieved on November 19, 2017. "The Texas State University System O. Henry Hall 601 Colorado Street Austin, Texas 78701"
^Victoria Blake, ed., Selected Stories of O. Henry (2003), p. x.