[3] In 1889, he designed the First Methodist Church in McMinnville, Tennessee, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Warren County, Tennessee.In 1890 Thompson designed the Ambrose House, still situated in East End in the Historic Edgefield District of Nashville.

By 2003 the house was in an advanced state of disrepair and scheduled for demolition when Gordon Gilbreath of Dovetail Construction saved the structure.

That same year, he designed the Utopia Hotel located at 206 4th Avenue North in Nashville, also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[7] Additionally, he designed the Community Baptist Church on the corner of South Douglas and Elliott Avenues in the Waverly Place Historic District, a neighbourhood in Nashville listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[2] Thompson also designed the private residence of Volney James on the southwest corner of Fatherland and Fifth Streets in East Nashville, which was demolished in 1963.