Villa Le Balze has use academic building
Academic center
Following the end of the war, Margaret retained the villa for 35 years by employing a minimal maintenance staff before gifting Villa Le Balze to Georgetown University in December 1979, where it would become the Charles Augustus Strong Center and would allow students to study Italian culture and history. Margaret's decision to donate the villa to Georgetown was the result of the provost of the university, Fr. J. Donald Freeze, S.J., who promised that the university would pay the fee to keep a light at her son's grave lit, as he had died and was buried in Fiesole. Upon its donation, Freeze was responsible for creating its academic programs and ran the program in 1991 upon resigning as provost.Today, the villa hosts students during the academic year and the summer as well as faculty from the main campus of Georgetown University. A small contingent of faculty and staff, including cooks, permanently remain at the villa.  It is able to house 20 students and accommodate 10 to 13 homestay students. In the course of a year, the villa hosts an average of 70 to 80 students. Due to its age and delicacy, the villa is continually undergoing a process of preservation and restoration by the university.