Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin da yake da shekaru 15, a 1892 Lawrie ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimaki ga masu zane-zane da yawa a Chicago, don rawar da suka taka wajen gina "White City" don Nunin Duniya na Columbian na 1893. Bayan kammala wannan aikin, Lawrie ya tafi Gabas, inda ya zama mataimakin William Ordway Partridge. A cikin shekaru goma masu zuwa, ya yi aiki tare da wasu sanannun masu zane-zane: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Philip Martiny, Alexander Phimister Proctor, John William Kitson da sauransu. Ayyukansa a Louisiana Sayen Nunin, St Louis, 1904
, a karkashin Karl Bitter, mashahurin masanin gine-ginen wannan lokacin, ya ba Lawrie damar haɓaka ƙwarewarsa da martabarsa a matsayin mai zanen gine-gine.