THE THOMAS PRICE MANSION 

            Thomas Price, Sr. lived in Elk Garden from 1797 to 1809. He had had his left arm shattered at the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774, and was an invalid ever afterward. Between 1809 and 1822 he moved to Kentucky.  Other genealogies have him dying in Elk Garden in 1804.  In 1782 he had surveyed a 400 acre settlement right (LO-464) on both sides of the North Fork of Cedar Creek, which is now Elk Garden Creek. The land lay entirely to the west of State 80.  Thomas Price, Jr. acquired this land, and lived there from 1791 to 1858. One of these Thomas Prices built the mansion on the west side of State 80 (see footnote at end of this chapter).  It is a pristine example of unmodified Federal Style of architecture, which was very popular around the time the Federal Constitution was approved in 1787. 

The Thomas Price Mansion 

            The Federal Style of architecture replaced the older Georgian style, which is familiar to us as the style of the buildings at Colonial Williamsburg.  The Federal styled house had a low roof that was flat on top, and the house was compulsively but pleasingly symmetric.  Everything was oriented around the front door, which was decorated with glass to its sides, and the two halves of the house were mirror