Patsy Cline House

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Patsy Cline's Home in Winchester, Virginia - Bulls.jpg

The Patsy Cline House in a working class -Wohnviertel in Winchester, Virginia was from 1948 to 1953 the home of Virginia Patterson Hensley, who later Country musician Patsy Cline . It's number 608 on South Kent Street. Patsy Cline moved out of the house when she married Gerald Cline at the age of 21 but lived here occasionally afterwards. The home was listed on both the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

history

Patsy Cline's mother, Hilda Hensley, moved into this house with her three children after separating from her husband. At first she rented it and later bought it. In order to support her family financially, Patsy Cline dropped out of school at the age of 16 to work as a waitress, soda jerk, and similar jobs before starting to sing. Her first appearance was on Jim McCoy's radio show on WINC in Winchester. Her mother sewed the daughter's first stage dresses in the house. Gospel singer Wally Fowler, leader of the Oak Ridge Quartet, was impressed by Cline's vocal potential and came here to encourage her to pursue a professional singing career.

The house is a simple two-story building with three fields, a veranda at the front and a tin roof with a usable area of ​​about 95 m 2 . The only bedroom that all four family members slept in is on the second floor. The structure is a log cabin that was built at the beginning of the 19th century. Almost all logs are covered by walls, with the exception of a small area on the front door with plexiglass. Cline's second husband, Charlie Dick, who lived in Winchester, said in the early 2000s that the neighborhood hadn't changed since the time Cline lived in the house. The house is now owned by Celebrating Patsy Cline, Inc. , a nonprofit that has converted and renovated it into a museum. Central heating and air conditioning were added. The museum has been open since 2011.

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

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Patsy Cline House, Winchester, VA .
  2. ↑ a b Frances Lowe: Where Cline became country's queen ( English ) In: Highway to History . Winchester Star. Archived from the original on December 4, 2010. Retrieved on August 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Larry O'Dell: Patsy Cline's restored house opening in Va ( English ) The Washington Post. July 27, 2011. Archived from the original on August 29, 2012. Retrieved on August 8, 2015.

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Coordinates: 39 ° 10 ′ 41 ″  N , 78 ° 9 ′ 53 ″  W.