Christian Cotz Sales Agent

Christian joins Drum & Drum after a 30-year career in the museum, historic preservation, and nonprofit management world. During his long tenure on the leadership team at James Madison's Montpelier in Virginia, Christian assisted with the $25M restoration of the home of the Father of the Constitution, as well as the restorations of an 1870s Freedman's home and a 1910 segregated train depot. He was the project director for the 2017 award-winning exhibition, The Mere Distinction of Colour, and the 2018 National Summit on Teaching Slavery. He also co-authored the Rubric for Engaging Descendant Communities that the Summit produced. He continues to consult on exhibitions and documentaries, as well as on governance and strategic planning for museums and other nonprofit organizations.

Christian's education in the elements of architecture and home ownership began at a tender age helping his parents work on their ca1760s Dutch Colonial family home in northern New Jersey; it was a never-ending labor of love. After graduate school, he was bitten by the farming bug and bought a dilapidated mid-nineteenth-century farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley that he spent 15 years renovating. When he moved to Maine, he traded his Massey Fergusson for a Grady White, and now lives in an 1880s ship captain's home overlooking the South Bristol drawbridge with his wife and two daughters.

Christian serves on the South Bristol School board and is Vice Chair of the AOS93 board.