Darnall's Chance
Buck House | |
Darnall's Chance in July, 2007 | |
| Location | 14800 Governor Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°49′09.22″N 76°44′57.51″W / 38.8192278°N 76.7493083°W |
| Built | 1742 |
| NRHP reference No. | 78003118 |
| Added to NRHP | April 20, 1978 |
Darnall's Chance, also known as Buck House, Buck-Wardrop House, or James Wardrop House, is a historic home located at 14800 Governor Oden Bowie Drive, in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.
It is named after Colonel Henry Darnall, a wealthy Roman Catholic planter, who was the Proprietary Agent of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and who served for a time as Deputy Governor of the Province. The house itself was built c. 1742 by a merchant named James Wardrop who bought some of Darnall's land from Eleanor Darnall Carroll and her husband Daniel Carroll, a politician and wealthy planter. Wardrop enslaved 32 people at the house.
Today, Darnall's Chance houses the Darnall's Chance House Museum, a historic house museum which opened to the public in 1988.