Arthur Rotch

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Arthur Rotch (May 13, 1850 - August 15, 1894) was an American architect active in Boston, Massachusetts.

Rotch was born in Milton, Massachusetts to Benjamin Smith Rotch (1817-1882) and Annie Bigelow Lawrence (1820-1893). He studied humanities at Harvard College for four years, graduating in 1871, spent two years (1872-1873) at MIT, then from 1874-1880 studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and in the atelier of Emile Vaudremer. While in France he was in charge of the restoration of the Chateau de Chenonceau.

In 1880 he became partner of Rotch & Tilden (Boston) with George Thomas Tilden, designing churches, the Memorial Library in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, gymnasiums of Bowdoin College and Phillips Exeter Academy, various academy buildings in Milton, Massachusetts, the art schools and art museum of Wellesley College, and many private houses and business blocks throughout the United States. He married Lisette DeWolf Colt on November 16, 1892.

Rotch was chairman of the visiting committee of Fine Arts of Harvard University, a member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and with his brother and sisters founded the Rotch Travelling Scholarship which sends an American student of architecture to Europe for two years' study and travel.