The Smith Estate, also known as El Mio (Spanish: "mine" or "my place"), is a historic Victorian house perched on a hilltop in the Highland Park section of Los Angeles, California. The street, El Mio, is named after the house, which is how the Smith family referred to it during their residence there. Built in 1887, the house was designed in the Queen Anne-style by an unknown architect. It has been the residence of a judge who wrote books on occult...
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The Smith Estate, also known as El Mio (Spanish: "mine" or "my place"), is a historic Victorian house perched on a hilltop in the Highland Park section of Los Angeles, California. The street, El Mio, is named after the house, which is how the Smith family referred to it during their residence there. Built in 1887, the house was designed in the Queen Anne-style by an unknown architect. It has been the residence of a judge who wrote books on occultism, the head of the Los Angeles Railway, and a deputy mayor, and the shooting location for the cult film "Spider Baby". It has also been declared a Historic-Cultural Monument and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The house was built for Judge David Patterson Hatch (1846-1912). While the National Register indicates the house was built in 1890, a newspaper article from July 1887 reported that the house was already under construction:
"The frame of Judge Hatch's $10,000 residence, which is to overlook the beautiful Highland...
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