Huber Building

The Huber Building is a historic department store building in Marion, Ohio.[1] It was designed by Richards, McCarty & Bulford and constructed in 1903 by famed industrialist Edward Huber.[1] The building contract was for $250,000.[2] A 1909 image was taken from atop the building's elevator tower.[3] Uhler Phillips Company, also known as Uhler's, operated a department store in the building for many years. It was owned by Carrie Fulton Phillips and her husband James Phillips, who left the company following a scandal that linked his wife with Warren G. Harding.[4]

The Huber Building is located at the northwest corner of Center Street and Prospect Street. It includes 54,000 square feet of space, two elevators, a rooftop garden and was home to the C.W. McLain Company department store, which was purchased and became Uhler-Phillips Company, which remained in business for many decades,[1] surviving a scandal that involved its owners and Warren G. Harding.[4]

The building, at 148 West Center Street, is being redeveloped into lofts.[5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 pages 46, 47 (Marion County Historical Society photograph)
  2. ↑ Ohio Architect and Builder Volume 10 1907
  3. ↑ Marion County page 52 Stuart J. Koblentz Arcadia Publishing, 2007 - History - 127 pages
  4. 1 2 Robenalt, James D. The Harding Affair, Love and Espionage During the Great War. Palgrave Macmillan (2009), ISBN 978-0-230-60964-8
  5. ↑ Lois Fisher & Associates

Coordinates: 40°35′20″N 83°7′50″W / 40.58889°N 83.13056°W / 40.58889; -83.13056

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