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Wisconsin Magazine of History (ISSN 0043-6534) WISCONSIN MAGAZINE OF HISTORY The State Historical Society ofWisconsin • Vol. 72, No. 4 • Summer, 1989 'W»«>' N 1 THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN H. NICHOLAS MULLER III, Director Officers MRS. L. PRENTICE EAGER, JR., President GERALD D. VISTE, Treasurer Gf.ov.Gt.H.Miixx.fi, First Vice-President H. NICHOLAS MULLER III, Secretory MRS. B. L. BERNHARDT, Second Vice-President THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN is both a state agency and a private membership organization. Founded in 1846-two years before statehood-and chartered in 1853, it is the oldest American historical society to receive continuous public funding. By statute, it is charged with collecting, advancing, and disseminating knowledge ofWisconsin and of the trans-Allegheny West. The Society serves as the archive of the State of Wisconsin; it collects all manner of books, periodicals, maps, manuscripts, relics, newspaf)ers, and aural and graphic materials as they relate to North America; it maintains a museum, library, and research facility in Madison as well as a statewide system of historic sites, school services, area research centers, and affiliated local societies; it administers a broad program of historic preservation; and publishes a wide variety of historical materials, both scholarly and pwpular. MEMBERSHIP in the Society is of>en to the public. Individual membership (one fjerson) is $25. Household or ContrUmting membership (one or two fjersons) is $45. Supporting membership is $100. Sustaining membership is $250. A Patron contributes $500 or more. A member of any organization sup(K)rting the advancement of history (e.g., local historical societies, museums, Wisconsin Trust for Historic Preservation, genealogical and/or archeological societies, etc.) can receive a $5 discount at any level. THE SOCIETY is governed by a Board of Curators which includes twenty-four elected members, the Governor or desigfnee, three appointees of the Governor, a legislator from the majority and minority from each house, and ex officio, the President of the University of Wisconsin System, the designee of the Friends Coordinating Council, the President of the Wisconsin History Foundation, Inc., and the President of the Administrative Committee of the Wisconsin Council for Local History. A complete listing of the Curators app>ears inside the back cover. The Society is headquartered at 816 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, at the juncture of State and Park streets on the University of Wisconsin campus. The State Historical Museum is located at 30 North Carroll Street. A partial listing of phone numbers (Area Code 608) follows: General Administration 262-3266 Library circulation desk 262-3421 Affiliated local societies 262-2316 Maps 262-5867 Archives reading room 262-3338 Membership 262-9613 Contribution of manuscript materials 262-3248 Microforms reading room 262-9621 Editorial offices 262-9603 Museum tours 262-7700 Film collections 262-0585 Newspapers reference 262-9584 Genealogical and general reference inquiries . 262-9590 Picture and sound collections 262-9581 Government publications and reference 262-2781 Public information office 262-9606 Historic preservation 262-1339 Salesdesk 262-8000 Historic sites 262-9606 School services 262-7539 Hours of operation 262-8060 Speakers bureau 262-9606 ON THE COVER: An artist's rendering of how Frank Lloyd Wright's 1893 boathouse design for Madison's Lake Monona might took today as part of a proposed civic marina development. The rendering departs from the design especially with respect to the corner pavilions, which project too far from the facade. The Evjue Foundation and The Capital Times have offered to build the structure as a gift to the city, should the marina be approved. The boathouse would stand on the site for which it was designed and would be used as a boat-rental office, exhibit gallery, viewing pavilion, and meeting space. The story of Wright's boathouse designs for Lakes Mendota and Monona begins on page 273. Rendering and color separations courtesy The CapitalTimes. Volume 72, Number 4 / Summer, 1989 WISCONSIN MAGAZINE OF HISTORY Published quarterly by the State Historical Society ofWisconsin, 816 State Street, Madison, From Cooksville to Chungking: Wisconsin 53706. Distributed The Dam-Designing Career of to members as part of their dues. (Individual membership, John L. Savage 243 $25; senior citizen individual Benjamin D. Rhodes membership, $20; family senior citizen individual, $20; family, $30; senior citizen family, $25; supporting, $100; sustaining, $250; patron, $500 or more.) Frank Lloyd Wright's 1893 Boathouse Designs Single numbers from Volume for Madison's Lakes 273 57 forward are $2. Microfilmed John O. Holzhueter copies available through University Microfilms, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106; reprints of Volumes 1 through 20 and The Northwest Ordinance and most issues of Volumes 21 Regional Identity 293 through 56 are available from Kraus Reprint Company, Peter S. Onuf Route 100, Millwood, New York 10546. Communications should be addressed to the editor. The Book Reviews 305 Society does not assume responsibility for statements Book Review Index 312 made by contributors. Second-class postage paid at Madison, Wisconsin. Accessions 313 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wisconsin Magazine Wisconsin History Checklist 317 of History, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. Copyright © 1989 by Contributors 319 the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Magazine of History is indexed annually by the editors; cumulative indexes are assembled decennially. In addition, articles are abstracted and indexed in America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Index to Literature on the American Indian, and the Combined Retrospective Index tofoumals in Editor History, 1838-1974. PAUL H. HASS Photographs identified with WHi negative numbers are Associate Editors from the Historical Society's collections. WILLIAM C. MARTEN JOHN O. HOLZHUETER I'l .. .11111, ll, The Hoover Dam and Lake Mead with a nearly full reservoir in June, 1982. Lake Mead extends 110 miles upstream into the lower end of the Grand Canyon and has a shoreline of 822 miles when full Photograph by E. E. Hertzog. This and the other photographs in this article which do not have WHi negative numbers are reproduced courtesy the Bureau of Reclamation. From Cooksville to Chungking: The Dam-Designing Career of John L. Savage By Benjamin D. Rhodes first met John L. Savage in the fall The John L. Savage I met that day and I of 1948 when I was a boy of twelve came to know over the next few years fell a bit and hadjust moved to Denver, Colorado. My short of my youthful expectations. He was al­ grandmother and Savage were first cousins most six feet tall with short white hair, blue and "Uncle Jack," almost seventy and a wid­ eyes, and rimless glasses. But he was com­ ower, was invited to Sunday dinner, the first of pletely unassuming and hardly projected the many such family occasions. Before he ar­ personality of a man who had risen to the top rived, I learned that Savage had grown up in of his profession and had traveled the globe. Cooksville, Wisconsin, and had been trained He spoke in a soft voice through partially as a civil engineer at the University ofWiscon­ clenched teeth without perceptibly moving his sin. At the time I first met him. Savage was a lips. Most of his conversation dealt with ordi­ private consulting engineer. Two and a half nary subjects of the day rather than his engi­ years previously he had retired as the chief de­ neering accomplishments: the weather and signing engineer of the Bureau of Reclama­ traffic, the regretable outcome of the presi­ tion, whose engineering offices were in Den­ dential election, his difficulty in adjusting to a ver. In that position he had supervised the new pair of bifocal glasses, and his folly in hav­ design of such projects as the Hoover Dam, ing purchased a Lincoln Continental with a V- the Grand Coulee Dam, the Parker Dam, the 12 engine which gave constant mechanical Imperial Dam, the Davis Dam, the Shasta trouble. What he said was pleasant, low-keyed, Dam, the Norris and Wheeler Dams (for the and not particularly animated or humorous.' Tennessee Valley Authority), and the pro­ From my perspective. Uncle Jack seemed a posed Yangtze Gorge Dam in China. The normal person for his age with normal inter­ Boulder Dam (the name was changed to ests. He was not, as several writers have Hoover Dam in 1947) was familiar to me be­ claimed, a man so abnormally absorbed with cause I had a View Master three-dimensional his work that he had no outside interests or photographic disc depicting its construction. hobbies whatsoever. On his travels to the Ori­ At the time, however, I was unclear about its ent he had collected numerous decorations, location and thought it was somewhere near objects of art, and pieces of furniture which Boulder, Colorado, instead of Boulder City, Nevada. I was also aware, from having seen an artist's rendition in the press, that Savage had 'See L. Vaughn Downs, The Mightiest of Them All: Mem­ designed the world's largest dam which was to ories of Grand Coulee Dam (Fairfield, Washington, 1986). be built some day on the Yangtze River in Downs (who was married to Savage's niece) recalls on page China. I looked forward to meeting such a 35 that when Savage and engineer Fred Sharkey drove to a nearby dam "they got to telling jokes and laughed so prominent person. hard that Fred almost wrecked the car. ..." Copyright © J 989 by The State Historical Society ofWisconsin 243 Alt rights of reproduction in any form reserved Courtesy ihe Bureau of Reclamation John L. Savage in China, late in his dam-designing career. were displayed in his home. In a hallway he Only occasionally did dam designing enter had a combination piano and violin contrap­ the conversation.
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