Background
Smith was born in Portland, Oregon.
Smith was born in Portland, Oregon.
In Portland, he apprenticed under Charles Ertz and then under 0. He completed two years of study in architecture at the Cornell University in Ithaca.
According to a drafted nomination for a proposed Fairmount Historic District in Salem, Oregon, he was a "locally prominent and prolific architect" of Salem. L. DuPuy, and then under others in Ithaca, New York, in New York City, and Portland again. Works include:
Curtis Cross House, 1635 Fairmount Avenue., South. Salem, Oregon (Smith,Clarence L), NRHP-listed
Marion County Housing Committee Demonstration House, 140 Wilson Saint, South Salem, Oregon (Smith,Clarence L), NRHP-listed
Edgar T. Pierce House, 1610 Fir Saint, South Salem, Oregon (Smith,Clarence L), NRHP-listed
Doctor and Mistress
Charles G. Robertson House and Garden, 460 South. Leffelle Saint Salem, Oregon (Smith,Clarence L), NRHP-listed
One or more works in Gaiety Hill-Bush"s Pasture Park Historic District, roughly bounded by Pringle Creek, Mission Saint, Bush"s Pasture Pk., Cross, High, and Liberty Saints
Salem, Oregon (Smith,Clarence L. Et al), NRHP-listed.