Main St., Upper Marlboro, Maryland. County/parish: Prince George's.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 20, 1978. NRIS 78003118.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
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.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106777930