DALLAS, Texas — Frederick Milton Smith II, whose long, diverse career included building one of the first townhouse projects in Dallas, died June 5, 2015.

Smith, 82, died in Dallas, Texas, from complications of Lewy body dementia, his family said.

A reception will be held Friday, June 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the family home in Dallas.

Smith was born in 1933 in Portland, Maine. He attended Governor Dummer Academy in Byfield, Mass., where he was named most outstanding graduate. He received a scholarship to Amherst College, where he received a bachelor's degree in history.

In 1957, he married Jerrie Marcus, daughter of Neiman Marcus president Stanley Marcus in Dallas.

After completing his service in the Air Force, Smith worked briefly at his father-in-law's luxury store before launching a career in real estate development in 1959 with Great Southwest Cos.

In 1963, he became a partner with Hexter-Fair Title Co., where his projects included more than 2,000 apartments for lower-income families in Dallas and Houston.

In 1966, he created Surveyor Cos., which developed Christopher Place, one of Dallas' first townhouse projects. The development near Turtle Creek Boulevard was named after Smith's son.

"He was always just a little bit ahead of his time," his wife said. "It was a good headline but not good for the bank account, because people didn't know what a townhouse was."

He worked closely with civil rights leader A. Maceo Smith to develop the first professional building in southern Dallas that had an elevator and full air conditioning.

"Nobody else had done that before," his wife said of the building, which was occupied by black lawyers and physicians. "And being a New Englander, he felt very strongly about integration. ... He got a lot of pleasure out of that."

Smith also co-developed The Quadrangle in Uptown, the first project in Dallas that combined residential and retail space.

In the 1980s, he joined an East Texas wildcat prospect, which led to the development of Republic Royalty, Spinnaker Oil & Gas and Smith Allen Oil & Gas.

"We never could put it into a word what Dad did," said his daughter, Allison V. Smith, a former Dallas Morning News photographer. "When we were filling out college applications it was like, 'What does Dad do?' because he was involved in so many things."

His family said that besides his business accomplishments, Smith "had a great love of the ocean, sailing, the land, all animals and especially his big family."

He split his time between Dallas and a home he built in, Rockport, where he planted a tree farm with more than 10,000 seedlings.

"What he built in Maine ... has become, in all of our minds and our children's minds, home for all of us," his daughter Juliette Smith Aston of Dallas said. "He brought us all together up there on the hill he created."

Smith is survived by his wife, Jerrie Marcus Smith; his son, Hans Christopher Smith of London; four daughters, Jennie Smith Wilson of Ridgewood, N.J., Juliette Smith Aston of Dallas, Courtnay Smith Perevalova of Moscow and Allison V. Smith of Dallas; and 12 grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the MCF-Frederick M. Smith Fund at the Maine Community Foundation, 245 Main St., Ellsworth, ME 04605, to continue Smith's scholarship legacy at Camp Winona. For more information, contact Winona Camps at 207-647-3721.