Rueping estate

(1993 July, Rueping memoir)
The Rueping summer estate was bounded on the east by Lake Winnebago, on the west by the highway running north from Fond du Lac to Taycheedah; along the north and south sides was a four-foot prickly hedge to keep intruders out.  The  Ruepings lived in three "cottages," which were just like houses, painted grey, etc.  They fronted on the highway, and a semicircular, graveled drive, neatly edged, ran from it around the back of the cottages and then curved back to the highway again.  Our house was across the road; there was also a "dance hall" and a boat house on an artificial island in the lake, reached by arched bridges, like Chinese ones.  Frank Parsons designed and built the hoat house.  The motor boats and canoe were stored above, under the ceiling, in the winter.