 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, and appreciated the “value of foreign travel in stimulating young architects’ imagination through contact with great buildings of the past.”

Arthur Rotch died of pleurisy in August 1894, at the age of forty-four.