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Berkeley’s most revolutionary modern house was built, incongruously enough, for a scion of Berkeley’s most traditional family, the Shattucks. In 1852, Francis Kittredge Shattuck (1825–1898) came to California and soon became a leading figure in the development of Oakland and Berkeley. By 1868, he had convinced his younger sister Elizabeth Helen (1835–1912) and her lawyer husband Henry Herman Havens to follow in his steps. Elizabeth had seven children. The third was John Weston Havens, who in 1881 entered the University of California. The childless Shattuck invited his nephew to live with him in Berkeley and made him his heir. John’s only child was John Weston Havens, Jr. (1903–2001).
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