Huber Building

The Huber Building is a historic department store building in Marion, Ohio, United States.^[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]