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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 buildings of [[Milton Academy]], the art schools and art museum of [[Wellesley College]], and many private houses and business blocks throughout the [[United States]]. In 1893, he designed [[Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum|Ventfort Hall]] in [[Lenox, Massachusetts]] for George Hale Morgan and Sarah Morgan, the daughter of [[Junius Spencer Morgan]].<ref name="gilded">{{cite news|last1=Brooke|first1=James|title=TRAVEL ADVISORY; Berkshires Mansion Preserves the Gilded Age|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/travel/travel-advisory-berkshires-mansion-preserves-the-gilded-age.html|accessdate=4 March 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=19 August 2001}}</ref>
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 buildings of [[Milton Academy]], the art schools and art museum of [[Wellesley College]], and many private houses and business blocks throughout the [[United States]]. In 1893, he designed [[Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum|Ventfort Hall]] in [[Lenox, Massachusetts]] for George Hale Morgan and Sarah Morgan, the daughter of [[Junius Spencer Morgan]].<ref name="gilded">{{cite news|last1=Brooke|first1=James|title=TRAVEL ADVISORY; Berkshires Mansion Preserves the Gilded Age|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/travel/travel-advisory-berkshires-mansion-preserves-the-gilded-age.html|accessdate=4 March 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=19 August 2001}}</ref>


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 Traveling Scholarship which sends an American student of architecture for a minimum of eight months study and travel abroad.
Rotch was chairman of the visiting committee of Fine Arts of [[Harvard University]], a member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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In his will, he left more than $100,000 (equivalent to ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|100000|1894}}}} today) to public and charitable organizations.<ref>{{cite news|title=BOSTON INSTITUTIONS REMEMBERED.; Two Men Leave Large Sums of Money for Their Endowment.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1894/08/23/archives/boston-institutions-remembered-two-men-leave-large-sums-of-money.html|accessdate=5 March 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=23 August 1894}}</ref>
In his will, he left more than $100,000 (equivalent to ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|100000|1894}}}} today) to public and charitable organizations.<ref>{{cite news|title=BOSTON INSTITUTIONS REMEMBERED.; Two Men Leave Large Sums of Money for Their Endowment.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1894/08/23/archives/boston-institutions-remembered-two-men-leave-large-sums-of-money.html|accessdate=5 March 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=23 August 1894}}</ref>

In 1883, Rotch and his siblings founded the Rotch Traveling Scholarship in memory of their father, Benjamin Smith Rotch. The scholarship sends an American student of architecture for a minimum of eight months study and travel abroad. Benjamin Rotch, a relatively well-known landscape artist, had studied painting in Paris in 1847,<ref>[http://rotch.org/about/index.html#history Rotch Travelling Scholarship]</ref> and appreciated the “value of foreign travel in stimulating young architects’ imagination through contact with great buildings of the past.”<ref>[https://www.architects.org/news/memory-fathers White, Eric. "In Memory of Fathers", Boston Society of Architects, June 15, 2016]</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 05:09, 3 August 2018

Arthur Rotch (May 13, 1850 – August 15, 1894) was an American architect active in Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

Early life

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.[2]

Career

While in France he was in charge of the restoration of the Château 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 buildings of Milton Academy, the art schools and art museum of Wellesley College, and many private houses and business blocks throughout the United States. In 1893, he designed Ventfort Hall in Lenox, Massachusetts for George Hale Morgan and Sarah Morgan, the daughter of Junius Spencer Morgan.[3]

Rotch was chairman of the visiting committee of Fine Arts of Harvard University, a member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Personal life

On November 16, 1892, he married Lisette DeWolf Colt.

In his will, he left more than $100,000 (equivalent to $3,521,538 today) to public and charitable organizations.[4]

In 1883, Rotch and his siblings founded the Rotch Traveling Scholarship in memory of their father, Benjamin Smith Rotch. The scholarship sends an American student of architecture for a minimum of eight months study and travel abroad. Benjamin Rotch, a relatively well-known landscape artist, had studied painting in Paris in 1847,[5] and appreciated the “value of foreign travel in stimulating young architects’ imagination through contact with great buildings of the past.”[6]

References

Notes
  1. ^ Castle, William Richards; Pier, Arthur Stanwood (1895). The Harvard Graduates' Magazine. Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  2. ^ Lawrence, Robert Means (1904). The Descendants of Major Samuel Lawrence of Groton, Massachusetts: With Some Mention of Allied Families. Printed at the Riverside Press. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  3. ^ Brooke, James (19 August 2001). "TRAVEL ADVISORY; Berkshires Mansion Preserves the Gilded Age". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  4. ^ "BOSTON INSTITUTIONS REMEMBERED.; Two Men Leave Large Sums of Money for Their Endowment". The New York Times. 23 August 1894. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  5. ^ Rotch Travelling Scholarship
  6. ^ White, Eric. "In Memory of Fathers", Boston Society of Architects, June 15, 2016
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