I te 15 o ona tau, i te tau 1892 i mahi a Lawrie hei kaiawhina ki te maha o nga kaitoi i Chicago, mo to raatau waahanga ki te hanga i te "White City" mo te Whakaaturanga o te Ao o Columbian o 1893. Whai muri i te otinga o taua mahi, ka haere a Lawrie ki te Rawhiti, i reira ka noho ia hei kaiawhina ki a William Ordway Partridge. I roto i te tekau tau e whai ake nei, i mahi tahi ia me etahi atu kaiwhakairo rongonui: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Philip Martiny, Alexander Phimister Proctor, John William Kitson me etahi atu. Ko tana mahi i te Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, 1904
Ko te mahi whakairo, i raro i a Karl Bitter, te kaiwhakairo hoahoanga nui o taua wa, i ahei ai a Lawrie ki te whakawhanake i ona pukenga me tona ingoa hei kaiwhakairo hoahoanga.