CAPITAL CITY HISTORY: One of Missouri’s richest men became city’s first mayor

April 13, 2024 at 4:00 a.m.

by By Kenneth Winn Historic City of Jefferson

Missouri State Archives A sketch of the Price Mansion on High Street. It was demolished in 1905 to make way for the Missouri Supreme Court Building. The sphere-topped gate posts of the mansion still stand in front of the Supreme Court building.
Missouri State Archives A sketch of the Price Mansion on High Street. It was demolished in 1905 to make way for the Missouri Supreme Court Building. The sphere-topped gate posts of the mansion still stand in front of the Supreme Court building.

The Missouri Supreme Court rests upon land once occupied by a mansion owned by Thomas Lawson Price: one of Missouri's richest men, one of its most prominent politicians and Jefferson City's first mayor.

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