 The GAR Memorial Association, a women's group, used it until 1973.The GAR building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 13, 1986.More recently the city attempted to sell the building, but a coalition including the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War and the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War brought suit against the city of Detroit to block sale of the building, claiming that a clause in the 1898 deed stated that city must preserve the building as a memorial to Civil War veterans.