 Noffke owned the lake that he built his family cottage on, he filled it with rainbow trout, and he named it Lake Eda after the nickname that everyone referred to his wife as.Although he was a hardworking and well-established architect in the city, he always had time for his family and take part in hobbies such as hunting and fishing, which drove him to join the Laurentian, Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club.Noffke was drawn to this style of architecture and used it very frequently on some of the residential buildings he was commissioned to build.