[2] The Smale couple divorced by 1910, with Mary taking her children to live in Gull Harbor, Washington.
[3][4] One of his design partners was Lewis Elbert Blaize and among his collaborations were works with Chisholm & Meikle[5] as well as S. Charles Lee, the latter with whom he created Marchetti's Café (1925).
in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles; it is still standing as of 2020 and is protected by an historic preservation overlay zone (HPOZ).
[6] In his career, Smale designed homes for Buster Keaton[5] and Monsignor Kenneth R. O'Brien, a prominent member of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
[7] Some of his work has varying ranges of historic protection, like the Loyola Theater, designated L.A. Historic-Cultural Resource Number 259, and the Monsignor O'Brien House, designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #861.