Charles Granquist

Charles Granquist is executive director of The Pocantico Center. He is responsible for the RBF's philanthropic programs at the Rockefeller family estate in Pocantico Hills, New York, as well as overseeing the site's public visitation program. From 1985 to 1991 Mr. Granquist was president of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation in New Haven, Connecticut. From 1973 to 1985 he served as assistant director of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia. While at Monticello, in addition to administrative work, Mr. Granquist was in charge of restoration, research, and curatorial matters. His own research centered on the furniture at Monticello with particular emphasis on those pieces made on the plantation. From 1968 to 1971 he worked as a museum specialist in the department of mechanical and civil engineering at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Mr. Granquist attended Bard College and the Cooperstown Graduate Programs, Cooperstown, New York, where he received a master of arts in museum administration. Mr. Granquist currently serves on the Shelburne Museum board of trustees and as a director of the Greenrock Corporation and the Stone Barns Restoration Corporation.