The Drafting Room

Fairsted's Drafting Room

In the drafting room, the work of engineers was reproduced and added to. The role of draftsmen were to take the ideas of landscape architects like Olmsted, and put them into tangible form. Those rough sketches done from what spilled out of Olmsted’s mouth were taken up here to be perfected. Draftsmen were not members of the firm, instead working under the members. At the height of the firm in the 1930s, with over seventy employees, this was a very busy room. WW2 changed the way Americans worked, including those at Fairsted, moving from the home-style office Olmsted Sr. worked into an almost factory-like setting.