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Renovations of home can begin as soon as funds are available
By Eric Beidel The Winchester Star
By Eric Beidel The Winchester Star
Winchester — As soon as the money is available, work will begin to restore Patsy Cline’s former home on Kent Street.
Then it will be opened to the public.
But no one knows when that will happen.
But no one knows when that will happen.
The City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved a special-use permit that will allow a museum at 608 S. Kent St., where the country music legend once lived.
Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc. owns the home and will operate the museum.
First, though, the group must renovate the home that until recently was rented to tenants.
A historic marker stands in front of the house. Former tenants used to place a sign on the door reminding uninvited visitors that the home was a private residence and not a museum.
The Cline organization had planned to open a museum on the Loudoun Street Mall, but financial constraints put a halt to that.
“It’s time now,” CPC President Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf said. “We’re very very excited and happy that Patsy Cline finally will get the recognition she deserves in her hometown of Winchester.”
Huyett-Kempf’s group has received bids from companies seeking to handle the renovations, which will be costly but manageable, she said.
The cost of the project has not been determined, Huyett-Kempf said.
The home will be restored to its appearance between 1948 and 1957, when Cline lived there with her mother.
Her husband Charlie Dick, who she met in 1956, has been helping with ideas.
“He remembers where all of the furniture was and everything,” Huyett-Kempf said.
The group is also launching an effort to raise money for the renovations and to open the house to the public.
In a dream world, Huyett-Kempf said, the house would be open by the end of the year.
“I’d like to open it tomorrow,” she said. “But we just can’t say. It’s whenever the money comes in.”
Once it does open to the public, the house will be open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Cline group plans to hold annual fundraisers and other events at the house that will extend beyond those hours.
CPC Inc. leaders took part in numerous government meetings to reach this point.
First, the city’s zoning ordinance had to be changed to allow museums in the residential district where the house is located. The City Council made that change in March. Then the organization had to apply for the special-use permit, which was approved Tuesday.
Attending Tuesday’s meeting in Rouss City Hall were President Jeffrey B. Buettner, Mayor Elizabeth A. Minor, Art H. Major, John A. Willingham, Evan H. Clark, Milt F. McInturff, John W. Hill, Michael L. Butler, and Les C. Veach.
— Contact Eric Beidel at
ebeidel@winchesterstar.com
First, though, the group must renovate the home that until recently was rented to tenants.
A historic marker stands in front of the house. Former tenants used to place a sign on the door reminding uninvited visitors that the home was a private residence and not a museum.
The Cline organization had planned to open a museum on the Loudoun Street Mall, but financial constraints put a halt to that.
“It’s time now,” CPC President Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf said. “We’re very very excited and happy that Patsy Cline finally will get the recognition she deserves in her hometown of Winchester.”
Huyett-Kempf’s group has received bids from companies seeking to handle the renovations, which will be costly but manageable, she said.
The cost of the project has not been determined, Huyett-Kempf said.
The home will be restored to its appearance between 1948 and 1957, when Cline lived there with her mother.
Her husband Charlie Dick, who she met in 1956, has been helping with ideas.
“He remembers where all of the furniture was and everything,” Huyett-Kempf said.
The group is also launching an effort to raise money for the renovations and to open the house to the public.
In a dream world, Huyett-Kempf said, the house would be open by the end of the year.
“I’d like to open it tomorrow,” she said. “But we just can’t say. It’s whenever the money comes in.”
Once it does open to the public, the house will be open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Cline group plans to hold annual fundraisers and other events at the house that will extend beyond those hours.
CPC Inc. leaders took part in numerous government meetings to reach this point.
First, the city’s zoning ordinance had to be changed to allow museums in the residential district where the house is located. The City Council made that change in March. Then the organization had to apply for the special-use permit, which was approved Tuesday.
Attending Tuesday’s meeting in Rouss City Hall were President Jeffrey B. Buettner, Mayor Elizabeth A. Minor, Art H. Major, John A. Willingham, Evan H. Clark, Milt F. McInturff, John W. Hill, Michael L. Butler, and Les C. Veach.
— Contact Eric Beidel at
ebeidel@winchesterstar.com
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