Engineering Projects
With the Army Corps of Engineers, Chittenden was in charge of many notable projects throughout the United States:
- Yellowstone National Park (1891-1892, 1899-1906): roadwork, improvements, basalt arch at north entrance, single span bridge (Chittenden Memorial Bridge, formerly the Melan arch bridge) across the Yellowstone River.
- Yosemite National Park: commissioned by the Secretary of the Interior to determine boundary changes
- Lake Washington Canal Project, Seattle, Washington (1906)
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