Darnall's Chance

	Buck House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Darnall's Chance in July, 2007
Location	14800 Governor Oden Bowie Drive,; Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Coordinates	38°49′09.22″N 76°44′57.51″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.

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