Thomas Tryon

It is the after-dinner groups that whiled away the summer evenings on the Club’s south balcony, by whom Thomas Tryon’s kindly personality will be best remembered; he was always there. His professional associates realized more clearly to what extent he had overcome individual handicaps in his architectural career. If his physical infirmity handicapped him in many ways, he completely conquered his disappointments, and even when stricken down with paralysis two years before his death, his spirit seemed to rise superior to that culminating affliction.

Tom Tryon was a man of genuine culture and many accomplishments. In music he possessed something like creative ability, and in happy moods would improvise on the piano with felicity and charm. He was, indeed, sympathetically drawn to all the arts and they, in turn, helped to mold his character and make him the delightful companion which he was to those who knew him best. He gave largely of himself during the war, contributing especially to the entertainment of the boys arriving from the West and later of those who returned crippled from battle. In his profession, he is best known for the many country houses to which he brought a very refined taste in design and decoration.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1921 Century Association Yearbook