Its National Register nomination asserts its significance as follows:
The Charles Madden House is significant in architecture because it is one of the architect Charles Choate's early residential structures in Washington County and it represents a more modest example of Choate's residential architecture. Furthermore, it is a very good and intact example of the Queen Anne style applied to a small, one-story house, and with its intact floor plan and massing it is a very good and intact example of the Queen Anne type of vernacular house found throughout Georgia at the turn of the century. The Madden house is also the only documented example of a Choate commission for a black client.[2]
It has also been known as the Madden—Smith House.[2]