File:Detail view of brick coffin with scale - Harry Buck House, North of Main Street (14800 Governor Oden Bowie Drive), Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, MD HABS MD,17-MARBU,3-19.tif

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Detail view of brick coffin with scale - Harry Buck House, North of Main Street (14800 Governor Oden Bowie Drive), Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, MD
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Boucher, Jack E.
Title
Detail view of brick coffin with scale - Harry Buck House, North of Main Street (14800 Governor Oden Bowie Drive), Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, MD
Description
Waldrop, James; Lee, Lettice; Thompson, Adam; Sim, Joseph; Brostrup, John, photographer; Price, Virginia B, transmitter; Lavoie, Catherine C, project manager
Depicted place Maryland; Prince George's County; Upper Marlboro
Date Documentation compiled after 1933; 1992
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS MD,17-MARBU,3-19
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Darnall's Chance was built between 1741 and 1742 by James Wardrop, a Scottish immigrant, who amassed a fortune as a merchant and entrepreneur in the bustling port-town of Upper Marlborough, Maryland. In 1748, he married Lettice Lee, daughter of Phillip Lee, the progenitor of the Maryland branch of the illustrious Lee family of Virginia.

The Wardrops managed a large residential complex that included a substantial brick house, outbuildings, orchards, livestock and an ornamental garden. Their household included 32 slaves - house servants, skilled craftsmen and field hands. Following Wardrop's death in 1760, Lettice married Dr. Adam Thompson (creator of the "American Method" of smallpox inoculation) and after his death, she wed Col. Joseph Sim. She died on April 3, 1776 and willed her children the property, including the family burial vault.

The house was remodeled in 1857 and produced such a drastic change that the original Georgian appearance of the Wardrops' dwelling was lost. In 1986, the house was saved from demolition and returned to its 1742 appearance. Darnall's Chance was opened to the public as a house museum in 1988.

  • Survey number: HABS MD-661
  • Building/structure dates: 1741-1742 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1857 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1986 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/md0553.photos.574123p
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Object location38° 48′ 56.99″ N, 76° 45′ 00″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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