[3] Patsy's mother, Hilda Hensley, moved into the small house with her three children after separating from her husband and worked as a seamstress.

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.

[4] The house is a simple two-story, three-bay building with a front porch and a tin roof and about 1,000 square feet (93 m2) of space.

[4] 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.