Walter H. Smith, vice-president and manager of Nortex Hide and Produce Co., purchased two prominent hilltop lots in 1925 and resided here with his family the same year. The two-story, red brick house, in composition a rectangular block, has a hip roof clad in glazed green tiles and supported by shaped brackets. A one-story sun room and porch symmetrically flank the block on the east and west; a central portico faces south. The porch has been enclosed.
