Mendelssohn, Fisher and Lawrie was a significant architecture firm in early Omaha, Nebraska.
A number of their works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The pair were responsible for designing the 1884 Christian Specht Building in Downtown Omaha.
The following year Mendelssohn left Dufrene to partner with George Fisher, with whom he operated a firm until 1886.
Eventually, Harry Lawrie, born in Glasgow, Scotland in est 1858, who had nine years of experience in Glasgow and Edinburgh before immigrating to Chicago in 1883, moved to Omaha and joined the firm in 1887.