The “Drs Elsa and George Feher/Frederick Liebhardt/Joseph Yamada House” qualifies for historic designation for many criteria including landscape design.

The San Diego Historical Resources Board has designated the home at 2710 Bordeaux Ave in La Jolla a historical resource under several criteria.

The nomination, approved at HRB’s March 27 meeting via the consent agenda (meaning there was no opposition and no formal presentation, asserts the property, known as “The Drs Elsa and George Feher/Frederick Liebhardt/Joseph Yamada House” is historic for its association with Dr Elsa Feher and Dr George Feher, “historically significant individuals, and retains integrity for that association under HRB Criterion B,” according to the staff report.

The home was the primary residence and home office of the Fehers during their most productive years; Elsa Feher was a scientist, educator and significant director of the Fleet Science Center; her period of significance is 1968 to 1997.

George Feher was a prominent scientist and researcher whose pioneering research in electron-nuclear double resonance, electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and photosynthesis impacted the fields of physics and biophysics; his period of significance is 1967-2017.

Further, the report states, the home is representative as a notable work of Master Architect Frederick Liebhardt, retaining integrity of its 1967 period of significance as an example of the Post-and-Beam style, reflecting Liebhardt’s early focus on residential architecture with an emphasis on organic principles.

The property is also representative of Master Landscape Architect Joseph Y. Yamada’s work and retains its 1967 integrity as an example of Yamada’s renowned design enhancing indoor-outdoor connection.

The home is still owned by the Feher family, architect Ione Stiegler said March 27 in thanking HRB for honoring “both of the doctors who did amazing work and research.”