Patsy Cline House

---

title: "Patsy Cline House" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["houses-on-the-national-register-of-historic-places-in-virginia", "greek-revival-houses-in-virginia", "houses-in-winchester,-virginia", "national-historic-landmarks-in-virginia", "national-register-of-historic-places-in-winchester,-virginia", "working-class-culture-in-virginia"] description: "Historic house in Virginia, United States" topic_path: "general/houses-on-the-national-register-of-historic-places-in-virginia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Cline_House" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Historic house in Virginia, United States ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox NRHP"]

Field	Value
name	Patsy Cline Historic House
designated_other1	Virginia Landmarks Register
designated_other1_date	September 14, 2005
designated_other1_number	138-0042-0584
designated_other1_num_position	bottom
designated_other2	National Historic Landmark
designated_other2_date	January 13, 2021
designated_other2_number	100006248
designated_other2_num_position	bottom
image	Patsy Cline's Home in Winchester, Virginia - Stierch.jpg
location	608 S. Kent St., Winchester, Virginia
coordinates
locmapin	Virginia#USA
architecture	Greek Revival
added	November 8, 2005
area	0.2 acre
refnum	05001230
::

| name = Patsy Cline Historic House | nrhp_type = | designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register | designated_other1_date = September 14, 2005 | designated_other1_number = 138-0042-0584 | designated_other1_num_position = bottom | designated_other2 = National Historic Landmark | designated_other2_date = January 13, 2021 | designated_other2_number = 100006248 | designated_other2_num_position = bottom | image = Patsy Cline's Home in Winchester, Virginia - Stierch.jpg | caption = | location = 608 S. Kent St., Winchester, Virginia | coordinates = | locmapin = Virginia#USA | built = | architect OR builder = | architecture = Greek Revival | added = November 8, 2005 | area = 0.2 acre | refnum = 05001230 The Patsy Cline Historic House at 608 S. Kent St., in a working-class neighborhood of Winchester, Virginia was the home from 1948 to 1953 of Virginia Patterson Hensley, who later became the country music star known as Patsy Cline. She moved out of the house when she got married at the age of 21 to Gerald Cline, but returned intermittently afterwards.{{cite web | title =Patsy Cline House, Winchester, VA | work =Women's History Month | publisher =National Park Service | year = | url =http://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/wom/2006/patsy.htm | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150702022511/http://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/wom/2006/patsy.htm | url-status =dead | archive-date =July 2, 2015 | accessdate =February 11, 2012 }} The house was placed on both the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and a Virginia State Historical Marker was placed there about the same time. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021.

History

Patsy's mother, Hilda Hensley, moved into the small house with her three children after separating from her husband and worked as a seamstress. At first she rented the house, but later bought it. In order to help support the family, Patsy left school at age 16 working as a waitress, soda jerk and in similar jobs and later began singing. She first sang on Joltin' Jim McCoy's Sunday morning show on radio station WINC in Winchester. Her mother sewed her first stage costumes in the house. Gospel singer Wally Fowler, who led the Oak Ridge Quartet, was impressed by her singing, and came to the house in an attempt to start Patsy's professional singing career.

The house is a simple two-story, three-bay building with a front porch and a tin roof and about 1000 sqft of space. The sole bedroom is on the second story and all four members of Patsy's family slept there. The house is a log cabin built in the mid-19th century. Almost all the logs are covered by walls, however, except for a small area covered by Plexiglas by the front door. Charlie Dick, who was Patsy's second husband and had lived in Winchester, remarked in the early 2000s that the house and the neighborhood had not changed since Patsy lived there. The house is now owned by a non-profit organization, Celebrating Patsy Cline, Inc., which spent about $100,000 to renovate it into a museum. The renovations included adding central heating and air conditioning. The museum opened in 2011.{{cite web | last =O'Dell | first =Larry | title =Patsy Cline's restored house opening in Va | publisher =Associated Press | year =2011 | url =http://www.knoxville.com/news/2011/jul/26/patsy-clines-restored-house-opening-in-va/ | accessdate =February 11, 2012}}

Patsy Cline is buried a few miles south of the house in Shenandoah Memorial Park.

References

References

1. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
2. {{NRISref
3. "Weekly List 2021 01 29". National Park Service.
4. Lowe, Frances. "Where Cline became country's queen". Winchester Star.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::