Reviews of TMP Architecture, Inc (Architect)

Perkins Byrd

Years ago I went here, as a student, with my brothers and sister and it was called Tuscarora school. It consisted of grades 1-8, with 1 teacher for all grades. I was in grade 1. It was a 2 room schoolhouse, one room for teaching and one for gym/music/naps for the little kids and recess when the weather was bad. The teacher my brothers, sister and I had, Mrs. Long, was the same teacher who taught our mother years before when she was a child! TMP has kept the integrity of the building, keeping the windows, basement and most of the buildings structure and grounds the same as it was back then, in the 40's. Somehow, that hill in the front isn't as steep as I remember it to be:) At recess we would sled down the hill. My brother, Jim, broke his collar bone when he lost control of his sled and hit the big tree in front. He was just starting down hill when the other boys jumped on his back in a dog pile thing that boys do, and things went pear shaped:) I went to visit TMP several years ago, and the people were very excited to see me as I could give them some history of the building, and to have me describe the various rooms, which were kept virtually the same as when I was a student there, minus the desks of course:) They did, however, remove the school bell, but the bell tower is still there. I told the story of how I rang the bell to indicate the end of recess by having one of my brothers lift me up to grab the rope. I was way too short to reach the rope:) I also told them how the teacher kept the unruly children in the cloak room as punishment, and the boss at TMP says he does the same thing to his unruly employees:) Too funny:) The cloak room was just as I remembered it, having spent my fair share of time in there:\ They were ever so nice at TMP and I hope to go back one day and visit again. I was also happy to see that the building was as I remembered it, they did a very good thing keeping it as it was back in the day. Not enough businesses do this, they change and ruin old buildings. Kudos to TMP and the nice people who work there. I believe the T in TMP stands for Tuscarora:)