The American Architect
Vol. CXIII
Wednesday, January 30, 1918
Number 2197 The Rotch Traveling Scholarship
The illustrations are reproduced from a series of Drawings by Frederick R. Witton,
(now in France), winner of the 1915 Scholarship
THE Rotch Traveling Scholarship was founded ;n jgg^ by the children of Mr. Benffjapiin Rotch, a characteristic Boston merqjiant. —Ope of his sons, Mr. Arthur Rotch, was a student of architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in....1878 and 1879, during which time he won for himself a considerable reputation among his fellow students as an earnest, hard worker and a brilliant water-colorist. He traveled very extensively throughout Europe, wrote some very interesting letters
for The American Architect, and when he returned to Boston, his native city, about 1880, he was speedily able to win for himself a position of influence and respect in his profession in association with Mr. George T. Tilden, under the firm name of Rotch & Tilden.
In 1883 there were no prizes in architecture open to students in this country. Schools of architecture existed at the Institute of Technology, Cornell
and Illinois, but they were only in their beginnings. The flood of American students towards the Ecole des Beaux Arts was just beginning. During 1879, for instance, there were less than ten architectural students in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, whereas in
1914 they were numbered by the hundreds. The profession of architecture was just beginning to find itself, but had not yet developed any individuality or personality in design, and the modern construction was absolutely unknown, so that the endowing
of the Rotch Traveling Scholarship followed by only a few years the renaissance of architecture in 1876, and the scholarship was not only the first of its kind, but to this day is still the most important prize within the reach of the young architect.
The Rotch heirs contributed the sum of $50,000, which was placed in the hands of trustees, who at once invited the co-operation of the Boston Society of Architects, to whom was entrusted the direction of the scholarship, first for a period of five years and subsequently for an indefinite period, so that from the beginning the affairs of the scholarship, as far as relates to the students and their work, have been under the direction of a committee of the society. This committee has at times included such men as Arthur Rotch, Robert S. Peabody, Edward C. Cabot, Charles A. Cummings, H. Langford Warren and many others of the best minds of the profession in Boston.
FROM A PENCIL SKETCH BY FREDERICK
ROY WITTON
Copyright, 1918, The Architectural & Building Press (Inc.)
Vol. CXIII
Wednesday, January 30, 1918
Number 2197 The Rotch Traveling Scholarship
The illustrations are reproduced from a series of Drawings by Frederick R. Witton,
(now in France), winner of the 1915 Scholarship
THE Rotch Traveling Scholarship was founded ;n jgg^ by the children of Mr. Benffjapiin Rotch, a characteristic Boston merqjiant. —Ope of his sons, Mr. Arthur Rotch, was a student of architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in....1878 and 1879, during which time he won for himself a considerable reputation among his fellow students as an earnest, hard worker and a brilliant water-colorist. He traveled very extensively throughout Europe, wrote some very interesting letters
for The American Architect, and when he returned to Boston, his native city, about 1880, he was speedily able to win for himself a position of influence and respect in his profession in association with Mr. George T. Tilden, under the firm name of Rotch & Tilden.
In 1883 there were no prizes in architecture open to students in this country. Schools of architecture existed at the Institute of Technology, Cornell
and Illinois, but they were only in their beginnings. The flood of American students towards the Ecole des Beaux Arts was just beginning. During 1879, for instance, there were less than ten architectural students in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, whereas in
1914 they were numbered by the hundreds. The profession of architecture was just beginning to find itself, but had not yet developed any individuality or personality in design, and the modern construction was absolutely unknown, so that the endowing
of the Rotch Traveling Scholarship followed by only a few years the renaissance of architecture in 1876, and the scholarship was not only the first of its kind, but to this day is still the most important prize within the reach of the young architect.
The Rotch heirs contributed the sum of $50,000, which was placed in the hands of trustees, who at once invited the co-operation of the Boston Society of Architects, to whom was entrusted the direction of the scholarship, first for a period of five years and subsequently for an indefinite period, so that from the beginning the affairs of the scholarship, as far as relates to the students and their work, have been under the direction of a committee of the society. This committee has at times included such men as Arthur Rotch, Robert S. Peabody, Edward C. Cabot, Charles A. Cummings, H. Langford Warren and many others of the best minds of the profession in Boston.
FROM A PENCIL SKETCH BY FREDERICK
ROY WITTON
Copyright, 1918, The Architectural & Building Press (Inc.)