Arthur Rotch

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 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...