Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe Lawrie dị afọ iri na ise, n'afọ 1892, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye na-enyere ọtụtụ ndị na-akpụ ihe osise aka na Chicago, n'ihi òkè ha keere n'iwu "White City" maka Ihe Ngosi Ihe Nkà nke Mba Nile nke 1893. Mgbe a rụchara ọrụ ahụ, Lawrie gara n'Ebe Ọwụwa Anyanwụ, ebe ọ ghọrọ onye enyemaka nke William Ordway Partridge. N'ime afọ iri sochirinụ, ya na ndị ọzọ a ma ama rụrụ ọrụ: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Philip Martiny, Alexander Phimister Proctor, John William Kitson na ndị ọzọ. Ọrụ ya na
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, 1904, n'okpuru Karl Bitter, onye na-ese ụkpụrụ ụlọ nke oge ahụ, nyere Lawrie ohere ịzụlite ma nkà ya na aha ya dị ka onye na-ese ụkpụrụ ụlọ.