Résumé

Draftsman, Arthur L. Loveless, Architect, Seattle, WA, 1938.

Draftsman, Kelly and Gruzen, Architects, New York, NY, 1939. Lawrence worked for the Latvian-born architect Barnett Sumner Gruzen (1903-1974), a 1926 MIT alumnus and winner of the prestigious Rotch Traveling Scholarship in 1930-1932. Kelly and Gruzen had an active practice designing large-scale buildings in New York and New Jersey.

Draftsman, McClelland and Jones, Architects, Seattle, WA, 1940-1943. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1940, p. 982 and Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1942, p. 645. See also Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Wwii Draft Registration Cards For Washington, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 102, accessed 09/12/2023.)

Assistant Architect, United States Engineers Office (USEO), Seattle, WA, 1943-1946. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1943, p. 673.)

Partner, Lawrence and Hazen, Architects, Seattle, WA, 1946- . According to Shaping Seattle Architecture, Second Edition, he retired in 1988. (See "Lawrence & Hazen," Shaping Seattle Architecture, Jeffrey K. Ochsner, ed., [Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014], p. 453.)

College

B.Arch., University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Seattle, WA, 1938. Lawrence lived at home (1128 23rd Avenue North )while he attended the UW. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1938, p. 935.)

M.Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1939.

Relocation

According to his King County birth certificate, Charles A. Lawrence, Jr., lived with his parents Charles A. Lawrence, Sr., and Charlotte East in a dwelling at 14th Avenue North (later East) and Republican Street in 1914. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington State Births 1907-1920 Source Information: Washington, U.S., Birth Index, 1907-1920 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002, accessed 09/12/2023.)

Six years later, his family lived in rented quarters at 406 14th Avenue North, also in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. According to the 1920 US Census, the Lawrences also took in a roomer, Annette Hurst (born c. 1893 in MI), a 27-year-old widow, who worked as a stenographer. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T625_1928; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 186, accessed 08/20/2019.) They remained at this address in 1924. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1924, p. 890.)

By 1926, the Lawrences owned a residence at 1128 23rd Avenue North. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1926, p. 903.) The US Census of 1930 indicated that Lottie's sister, Anna, who had divorced previously, lived with the family. Anna worked as a bookkeeper in a department store at the time, perhaps the same as that of Charles, Sr. The Lawrence House had an estimated value of $6,000, lower than those in its immediate neighborhood, which was relatively affluent. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1930; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Page: 28A; Enumeration District: 0092; FHL microfilm: 2342231, accessed 08/20/2019.) His parents remained at this address in 1943, and Charles, Jr., continued to live with them. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System, 1926-1975; Record Group Number: 147; Box or Roll Number: 115, accessed 08/20/2019 and Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1943, p. 673.)

In 1940, at age 26, he lived with his parents at 1128 23rd Avenue North in Seattle. See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Wwii Draft Registration Cards For Washington, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 102, accessed 09/12/2023.)

Lawrence lived with his wife Jean and their two sons at 9744 Lake Shore Boulevard in Capitol Hill between at least 04/1950 until 1959. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1951, p. 742 and Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1959, p. 948 and Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: King, Washington; Roll: 1341; Page: 45; Enumeration District: 17-287, accessed 09/12/2023.) Their residence likely had a prime view of Lake Union.

He died in 1991 at the age of 76, and was buried at the Evergreen-Washelli Memorial Park in Seattle.

Parents

His mother was Charlotte "Lottie" Pearl East (born 05/23/1886 in Hume, MO-d. 12/27/1959 in Seattle, WA), his father, Charles Albert Lawrence, Sr., (born 08/13/1885 in Tacoma, WA-d. 08/26/1945 in Seattle, WA). His parents wed on 06/10/1912 in King County, WA.

Charles, Sr., worked as a "window trimmer" and display manager for a dry goods store, Rhodes, in 1918 and 1920, while Lottie managed the household. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T625_1928; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 186, accessed 08/20/2019.) Charles, Sr., continued to work for Rhodes in 1942. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System, 1926-1975; Record Group Number: 147; Box or Roll Number: 115, accessed 08/20/2019.)

Lottie's parents were David C. East (born 1836 in MD-d. 1896 in MO) and Laura W. Laborence (born c. 1854 in IL-d. 1928 in Seattle, WA) who operated a farm in Howard, MO, in 1880. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1880; Census Place: Howard, Bates, Missouri; Roll: 673; Page: 77B; Enumeration District: 149, accessed 09/12/2023.) Laura and David split up, and she remarried Edgar W. Swan (born 01/1840 in IL-d. 12/31/1927 in Seattle, WA), a Seattle Carpenter before 1910. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T625_1925; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 87, accessed 09/12/2023.)

Spouse

He married Martha Jean MacGregor(born 01/06/1914 in Holyoke, MA-d. 08/27/2001 in Seattle, WA) on 07/15/1942 at the Prospect Congregational Church in Seattle. The father of architect Thomas Edward Dunstan (1919-2013), John F. Dunstan (1887-1954), married Charles and Jean Lawrence. Dunstan worked for Lawrence at about this time.

In 1920, her father Frederick J. McGregor (born 10/31/1889 in MA-d. 01/26/1963 in VT) worked as a weaver in a Holyoke woolen mill. Her mother was Anna Aitchison (born 10/27/1887 in Holyoke, MA), who managed the household when the 1920 US Census was done. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook, accessed 09/12/2023.) The McGregors lived at 113 Pine Street in Holyoke in 1920. All of Martha's grandparents had been born in Scotland. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Holyoke Ward 5, Hampden, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_700; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 58, accessed 09/12/2023.)

Children

He and Jean had two sons: Charles Frederick Lawrence (born 11/06/1946 in Seattle, WA) and Craig A. Lawrence (born c. 09/1949 in Seattle, WA)

Biographical Notes

Lawrence's World War II draft registration card of 1940 indicated that he was Caucasian, with a ruddy complexion, brown eyes and brown hair. No height or weight was listed. The card also noted that he had a "limp in left leg." See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Wwii Draft Registration Cards For Washington, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 102, accessed 09/12/2023.)

SSN: 139-16-4057. This Social Security number was issued in NJ.

• Seattle, WA (Architect's Birth)
  Seattle, WA 98104

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