 Houston and his wife donated $100,000 to build Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania, named as a memorial to their son, Henry Howard Houston, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania class of 1878), who had died in Rome within a year of his graduation.Houston attended St. Peter's Church in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia and was a property developer in that section of the city.Houston is the namesake of the Henry H. Houston Elementary School in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.