Smith Estate, Victorian mansion in Highland Park, Los Angeles, California, US

The Smith Estate is a Queen Anne style mansion in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, known for its asymmetrical facade and varied exterior surfaces. The building features ornamental details, a corner tower, decorative woodwork, and a mix of textures that are typical of this architectural style.

Judge David Patterson Hatch had the house built in 1887; a newspaper that July reported its frame already raised. Hatch presided over the Perkins-Baldwin breach-of-promise case, then left the bench in 1886 and wrote books on philosophy and the occult. Charles Warren Smith, a Los Angeles Railway superintendent, bought it in the mid or late 1890s, and the family kept it until the early 1960s. The National Register gives 1890 as the construction date.

The house's name El Mio, Spanish for "mine" or "my place," was how the Smith family referred to it, and the street below was later named after the house. In 1901 the Smiths hosted a Fourth of July party with dancing in the music room, and in 1904 a Japanese tea fundraiser with tea served by Japanese girls.

The estate is a private residence and can be seen from the street, making it easy to view the exterior from the sidewalk without entering the property. Daytime is the best time to visit, since the woodwork and tower details are much easier to appreciate in natural light.

During the Smith family years, the estate was known as El Mio, and a nearby street was named after it, a detail most visitors today do not realize. That street name is one of the few traces the family left on the neighborhood.