The former Joseph P. Keating Funeral Home is for sale, more than a year after local and state officials revoked licenses for the downtown site.

"The original owners have passed away and their children no longer have interest in maintaining the business," Nancy Wluka of Sharon's Wluka Real Estate, who is offering the property, told Sharon Patch in an e-mail.

"The property, located in downtown, is well known in Sharon and the surrounding communities for serving the community with compassion and dignity."

Located at 46 South Main St., the .41-acre site includes a two-story wood shingle building with 2,286-square-feet of living space, plus a 999-square-foot unfinished basement, according to Sharon assessors' records online. The building was erected in 1900.

Assessors records list the owner as Joseph P. Keating, c/o the Estate of Mary Keating, 71 Baybrook Farm, Mansfield.

Wluka's classified ad in Sharon Patch calls the site, at 46 South Main St., "ideal for medical, professional office. Does need work but the location could not be better. Parking estimate for 18 cars."  The site is in a Business A district, where "retail, commercial and office uses are allowed," Wluka said.

The funeral home closed in late 2009 after the Sharon Board of Health and the state funeral board revoked the site's local and state licenses, respectively.

The health board ruled on Nov. 30 of that year after meeting with Fred Keating, Mark Farley and state Division of Professional Licensure Chief Investigator Chris Carroll, according to the meeting minutes.

Carroll told the health board that the state funeral board directed him to revoke the state license, according to the minutes. He said the state requires a state type 3 license for funeral homes, including 51 percent ownership by the operator. Carroll said the site lacked such a license, and that the funeral home was in the name of Mary Keating, who had passed away.

The health board had granted Farley permission to oversee the funeral home until Fred Keating was properly licensed, the minutes say; Farley had a state license for a Stoughton funeral home. His arrangement with the Keatings started in 2007.

The board revoked Farley's license for the Keating Funeral Home, but said it would consider renewing the license until April 30, 2010, its expiration date, if the proper credentials and state license were issued.