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As several West Coast universities have learned, gifts of architectural masterpieces can present their stewards with opportunities as well as challenges. The University of Southern California has struggled with expensive structural repairs to Frank Lloyd Wright's Freeman House, while Stanford University has had to contend with expensive seismic work on Wright's Hanna House.
Last month, the University of California, Berkeley was gifted an important local work of California mid-century modern architecture, the Weston Havens House (1941), located in...