The small clapboard house at 608 S. Kent Street is where Virginia Patterson Hensley — later known as Patsy Cline — lived with her family from 1948 to 1953, between the ages of 16 and 21. These were the years she was honing her voice in local honky-tonks and trying to break into the music business, years before "Walkin' After Midnight" and "Crazy" made her one of the defining voices in country music. The house has been restored to its period appearance and is open for guided tours.
The interior is furnished to reflect how the Hensley family lived during those years — modest and working-class, with a young woman rehearsing obsessively in a house too small to contain her ambitions. The museum also holds photographs, costumes, and memorabilia from Cline's career. She died in a plane crash in March 1963, at 30 years old. The house is a short walk from the Old Town district, and many visitors combine it with a stop at her grave at Shenandoah Memorial Park.