Lyons Crescent, located in front of the NTID complex, is named for Edmund Lyon. He was an RIT trustee from 1905-1920, where he also served as Treasurer of the Board. Mr. Lyon and his family were long associated with the Rochester School for the Deaf, where he served as a trustee and also as President of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf.

Mr. Lyon's daughters have established an endowed lectureship on deafness at NTID, to honor the memory of their father.