Over the past 35 years, the building has developed strong LGBTQ significance during its use as Celebrity Club, Renegade’s Saloon, and The Atlanta Eagle. The building, originally built as a single-family home in 1898, has been home to outsider communities like the LGBTQ community since 1985.
The property is historically significant in the LGBTQ community as a site of social interaction as a site that is associated with the historic pattern of policing, harassment, and social control of the LGBTQ community and as a site associated to Ru Paul Charles.
The Atlanta Eagle is significant for its long-time association to the LGBTQ community and as an excellent example of a historic home altered for commercial use during the 20th century as Ponce De Leon Ave shifted from an upper class residential boulevard to a commercial corridor.
