{"nrhp_refnum":"05001230","name":"Cline, Patsy, House","other_names":["Dhr Id#: 138-0042-0584","138-5010-0001"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"608 S. Kent St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winchester","county":"Winchester","state":"VA","lat":39.17790698500005,"lon":-78.16440021567334,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Performing Arts"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay, single-pile frame house at 608 South Kent Street in Winchester, Virginia, probably built in the mid-19th century in a simple Greek Revival vernacular style, with an early-20th-century rear addition.","why_significant":"The house is nationally significant for its association with country singer Patsy Cline, who lived there from 1948 to 1953 and intermittently until 1957. Key events of her early career took place there, including Wally Fowler's offer of a Nashville audition and her mother's sewing of her cowgirl costumes. It was her longest residence in the Winchester and Nashville areas.","narrative":"This modest frame house at 608 South Kent Street in Winchester, Virginia, was the home of country music singer Patsy Cline from 1948, when she was sixteen, until 1953, and intermittently until 1957. Probably built in the mid-19th century, it is a two-story, three-bay Greek Revival dwelling on a limestone foundation, with vinyl siding, a standing-seam metal roof and an early-20th-century rear addition. Inside, the original flooring and a Greek Revival mantel survive. Cline shared the house with her mother, Hilda Hensley, and her younger siblings. Hilda sewed her daughter's western stage outfits in the dining room, and Cline rehearsed there and received an offer from gospel performer Wally Fowler to audition in Nashville. Cline lived here longer than anywhere else in the Winchester and Nashville areas. Other Winchester sites tied to her early career have been torn down or heavily altered, leaving this house as the best-preserved reminder of her formative years. It remains a private residence.","period_of_significance":"1948-1957","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Remains a private single-family residence in a working-class neighborhood, as it was in Cline's lifetime.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.484984-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/6841/41684166/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05001230.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001230/7dbc4dbcff-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001230/7dbc4dbcff-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Sarah Stierch","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patsy_Cline%27s_Home_in_Winchester,_Virginia_-_Stierch.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Stierch</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patsy_Cline%27s_Home_in_Winchester,_Virginia_-_Stierch.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"80004318","name":"Winchester Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/winchester-historic-district-80004318/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684166","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Cline_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7148237"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/winchester/cline-patsy-house-05001230/"}