The old Howard County Jail has been listed for sale. The 1875 jail and sheriff’s quarters went up for sale in August, and within days was under contract with a buyer from Nashville, Ky. That transaction, which was scheduled to close in mid-October, apparently fell through.

Fayette Main Street, Inc., which owns the jail, is asking $350,000. Mike Dimond, the group’s director, said that he has been fielding questions from interested parties.

The Victorian era building is separated into two sections: the living quarters, which originally housed the sheriff and his family, and the jail, which still features nine cells along with the booking room. The living area was completely renovated by 2008, after Los Angeles attorney Gary Kaplan purchased the building on auction website eBay.com for $42,000 from the county in 2005. It was named a notable historic property by the Fayette Historic Preservation Commission in 2010.

The new Howard County Jail was completed in November 2004, leaving the old jail empty.

Kaplan used the old jail as a part-time vacation residence. Plans once existed to use the building as a museum. Eventually, Kaplan abandoned his plans to relocate to Fayette and in 2015 donated the jail to Fayette Main Street.

Since then, the organization has maintained the property and occasionally rents it out using the online vacation property rental website airbnb.com.