page_title: Clara Burdette
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Clara Burdette / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Home of Clara Burdette, before she married Robert, 1125 Sunnycrest and Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, ca.1895-1900 Photograph of home of Clara Burdette, before she married Robert, 1125 Sunnycrest and Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, ca.1895-1900. The two-story house, which sits atop a rise with profuse foliage all around, was built around 1900 by Clara Burdette&#39;s second husband, a Confederate colonel, who willed it to her when he died. A long driveway is visible from bottom right to the left background. Rosebushes, trees, and palms can be seen on both sides of the driveway. Call number: CHS-241 Legacy record ID: chs-m2055; USC-1-1-1-2115 Filename: CHS-241 Coverage date: circa 1895/1900 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Type: images Geographic subject (city or populated place): Pasadena; Pasadena Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Accession number: 241 Microfiche number: 1-37-7 Archival file: chs_Volume32/CHS-241.tiff Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 2 photographs&#160;: glass photonegative, photoprint, b&amp;w&#160;; 17 x 22 cm., 18 x 23 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): residential sites Project: USC Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: circa 1895/1900 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs Geographic subject (state): California Subject (file heading): Pasadena -- Architecture -- Domestic; Pasadena; Pasadena (LA), Architecture, Domestic Format: glass plate negatives Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles Geographic subject (roadway): 1125 Sunnycrest and Orange Grove Avenue Subject (lcsh): Architecture, Domestic Subject: Burdette, Robert; Burdette, Clara
context_page_description: Clara Bradley Baker Wheeler Burdette was an American clubwoman and philanthropist based in Pasadena, California. She was the first president of the California Federation of Women's Clubs.
context_section_description: Clara Bradley married three times. She first married, in 1878, Nathaniel Milman Wheeler, a professor of Greek literature; they had a son, Roy B. Wheeler. The Wheelers moved to California for Professor Wheeler's health, but he died there in 1886. She married a second time, to Col. Presley Calvert Baker, in 1890; he died in 1893. In 1899 she married Robert Jones Burdette, a humor writer and lecturer who became an ordained Baptist minister. She was widowed a third time when Burdette died in 1914. She died in 1954, aged 98 years. Her papers are archived at the Huntington Library.
caption: Home of Clara Burdette, before she married Robert, 1125 Sunnycrest and Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, ca.1895-1900 (CHS-241)
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