Arthur Rotch was an American

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 architect

Architect

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 active in Boston

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, Massachusetts

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Rotch was born in Milton, Massachusetts

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 to Benjamin Smith Rotch (1817-1882) and Annie Bigelow Lawrence (1820-1893). He studied humanities at Harvard College

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 for four years, graduating in 1871, spent two years (1872-1873) at MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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, then from 1874-1880 studied at the École des Beaux-Arts

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 and in the atelier of Emile Vaudremer. While in France he was in charge of the restoration of the Château de Chenonceau

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In 1880 he became partner of Rotch & Tilden

Rotch & Tilden

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 (Boston) with George Thomas Tilden

George Thomas Tilden

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, designing churches, the Memorial Library in Bridgewater, Massachusetts

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, gymnasiums of Bowdoin College

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 and Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy

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, various buildings of Milton Academy

Milton Academy

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, the art schools and art museum of Wellesley College, and many private houses and business blocks throughout the United States

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. He married Lisette DeWolf Colt on November 16, 1892.

Rotch was chairman of the visiting committee of Fine Arts of Harvard University

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, a member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and with his brother and sisters founded the Rotch Traveling Scholarship which sends an American student of architecture for a minimum of eight months study and travel abroad.