Kirsten Reoch is the Executive Director of The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She oversees the management of its 49-acre campus, which includes fourteen structures—most notably the iconic Glass House (1949)—as well as a permanent collection of 20th-century painting and sculpture and a dynamic program of temporary exhibitions.

Prior to her leadership at The Glass House, Ms. Reoch served for over twenty-five years as Director of Capital Planning, Preservation, and Institutional Relations at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan—a City, State, and National Landmark. There, she directed the adaptive reuse, renovation, and preservation planning efforts, managing more than $165 million in design and construction projects in collaboration with firms such as Herzog & de Meuron and PBDW Architects. She also curated The Malkin Lecture Series at the Armory for eighteen years, presenting four lectures annually on topics related to the Armory’s history and the Gilded Age.

Ms. Reoch’s earlier roles include Senior Project Coordinator for The Walt Disney Company on the restoration of the New Amsterdam Theatre in Times Square and Project Associate for Tribeca Productions, where she was involved in planning film studios within historic industrial buildings in Brooklyn. She has also worked with a range of community-based preservation organizations, including Landmark West! and the DC Preservation League, and began her career at the Decatur House, a National Trust site in Washington, D.C.

She holds an M.S. in Historic Preservation and Planning from Columbia University and a B.A. in Art History from Mount Holyoke College.