Owners trot out plans for old mounted police station
Barksdale site to be reborn as office and apartment units
Lexington Asset Management CEO Eric Clauson conducts a tour of the 109-year-old building that housed the Barksdale Mounted Police Station. The building soon will undergo a $1.8 million renovation to convert it into offices and several apartments. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
The long-vacant, long-ignored Barksdale Mounted Police Station still has jail cell bars, horse stable windows and the name of Tennessee’s most infamous politician etched into the ornate front wall. A renovation will soon breathe new life into the city's first “suburban” police station.
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Apartments E.H. Crump historic preservation mounted policeTom Bailey
Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.
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