Price was primarily active from the 1950s to the late 1970s, designing private residences, hotels, motels, schools, a social club, a beach house and commercial buildings.
These include the Seahorse Motel (1956, now demolished) and the Beachcomber Motel (1963) on Seawall Boulevard, the Galveston Artillery Club (1959) on Avenue O, the gymnasium of Gladneo Parker Elementary School (1960) on 69th Street, and his largest project that he worked on in the city, the 10-story Sealy & Smith Professional Building (1964, demolished 2001) on University Boulevard.
Including Houston, he designed banks in Alvin, Bay City, Freeport, Hitchcock, and Webster, Texas, in the 1960s.
He also designed hotels in Asheville, North Carolina, Biloxi, Mississippi, Marathon, Florida, and San Francisco, California (most affiliated with the Jack Tar chain) around the same time.
Thomas M. Price retired to 320 W. Burbank St. in Fredericksburg, Texas, where he designed the Nimitz Museum.