The 1950s Kodak building and Atlanta Eagle, as seen last year. Like the club, the circa-1905 Kodak building next door is considered by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation to be in peril. One of the properties in question-a late-1800s, formerly residential building that’s been home to gay bar Atlanta Eagle since the eighties-could mark the first LGBTQ landmark designation in the Southeast. The latest twist in the story of two well-known Midtown buildings fronting Ponce de Leon Avenue has come with preservationist group Historic Atlanta withdrawing its support for landmark designations, as ironic as that may sound.
