Glendora Country Club

Glendora County Club was once the Warren Estate. The Warren Family were among the early pioneer settlers that helped farm the Southern California area. 

Charles Clifton Warren married his childhood sweetheart, Minnie Horne, near Stockton in Northern California in the early 1800’s. Warren came to the San Gabriel Valley in 1883 and his wife followed after their first child, Leslie, was born.  

In 1898 the Warrens purchased the land at Amelia and Alosta, (Highway 66) in Glendora and lived in a two-room house. It was so small that their sons slept at the old Cunningham house just down the road. 

In 1915 the Warren family built a beautiful two-story home, which presently houses the Glendora County Club. The first floor of the house consisted of a living room, dining room, library with balcony, kitchen, breakfast room and a full basement. The second floor had five bedrooms, a sitting room, two bathrooms, and three sleeping porches. 

Minnie Warren was very active in the community and was a charter member of the Glendora Woman’s Club. During World War I she organized a group of women to sew for the war effort and they gathered at her home. 

In 1954 Minnie Warren died and the estate was sold. Previously the land had been sub-divided among the four Warren sons, except for the portion where the house stood.   

After her death in 1954, Minnie was continually seen within the Country Clubhouse especially right before a patriotic holiday. Martha Wilson explains: “One afternoon the group were posing for a yearly photograph. The cameraman came and set up his equipment. When he started shooting pictures, he noticed the batteries of his camera flash until they were drained- completely dead. 

He snapped several shots, then once again the same thing happened. It was as if someone didn’t want him to take pictures of us at that moment. Finally, the cameraman lost his patience and left the building. A few months later when the pictures were developed, there was Minnie grinning brightly in the background in two of the sample pictures and right in the center of the others. 

The cameraman told us that this had never happened to him in the past and that he didn’t understand. We simply told him that she was our founding member and accepted the photographs. Within a few months each of us noticed that no matter how we framed our eerie ‘ghost’ photographs, the image of Minnie was fading.”  

The First 100 Years Limited Edition 1887-1987. Glendora, CA. Liberty Enterprises, 1986.

Kouri, Michael J.. The Most Haunted Places in Glendora. Burbank, CA. Tapestry Autumn Press, 2001.