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.)

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

Born in Seattle, WA, five-year-old Charles A. Lawrence, Jr., lived with his parents in a rented dwelling at 406 14th Avenue North in Seattle in 1920. According to the US Census of that year, 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.)

Lawrence lived with his wife, Jean, at 9744 Lake Shore Boulevard in Seattle from at least 1951 until 1959. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1951, p. 742 and Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1959, p. 948.)

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

Parents

His mother was Lottie Pearl East (born c. 1886 in MO-d. 12/27/1959 in Seattle, WA) 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.)

Spouse

He married Martha Jean MacGregar (1914-2001) 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.

Biographical Notes

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

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

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