Clarence Smith once owned this craftsman style home which was built before the 1920s.

Smith’s uncle was John Smith, the builder of Smith’s Corners (later renamed Campbell’s Corners) on the south side of the intersection of Main Street and Serra. Clarence Smith worked in his uncle’s saloon and lived in the lot just south of it in this house. Later, Clarence took over the saloon and ran it until the 1940s when he sold it to Campbell.

In the 1930s, it was apparent the automobile had firmly taken over from the horse and carriage, so Clarence Smith had the house moved to its present location to make room for a parking lot next to the saloon. This was fortuitious as few of the houses that were its old neighbors on Main Street survived the rush to “modernize” and expand the commercial nature of the street with the building of "strip malls" during the 1960s and 1970s.

When it was moved, the block bounded by Main on the west, Weller on the north, Winsor on the east and Carlo on the south was a residential neighborhood of over a dozen homes. The construction of the Calaveras Blvd. overpass caused most of them to be destroyed with this small craftsman style home, constructed by a local Milpitas carpenter, as the sole survivor of its day.

It is sometimes called the Dutra House after the family who owned it for many years after Smith left Milpitas.