Melrose is dominated by large residential housing complexes of various types, primarily public housing, and tenement style apartment buildings.

Famous former players include John Jeffrey, Roger Baird, Andrew Ker and Adam Roxburgh, all of whom featured in 7's teams that dominated the Borders circuit in the 1980s, including several wins in the blue ribbon event at Melrose.

During 1951 – 1952, Mies ' designed the steel, glass, and brick McCormick House, located in Elmhurst, Illinois ( 15 miles west of the Chicago Loop ), for real-estate developer Robert Hall McCormick, Jr. A one story adaptation of the exterior curtain wall of his famous 860 – 880 Lake Shore Drive towers, it served as a prototype for an unbuilt series of speculative houses to be constructed in Melrose Park, Illinois.

Bluebird was an important Chicago blues label, notably due to the work of A & R / producer Lester Melrose, who created what is known as the " Bluebird Sound .".

He returned to Chicago at the age of 30 and joined a circle of recording artists, including Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red, who introduced him to the record producer Lester Melrose, who claimed composer credit and publishing on many of Dupree's songs.

In 1918 ( though some sources state 1922 ), he joined forces with his elder brother Walter, and Marty Bloom ( born Martin Blumenthal, 1893-1974 ), to form The Melrose Brothers Music Company, a publishing house and music store on the South Side of Chicago.

In many ways Melrose can be considered a founder of the Chicago blues, although he favored acoustic over electric performances.

* Chicago Tribune article on Jelly Roll Morton and the Melrose brothers

* 1996: Popular bought American Midwest Bank for its two branches in suburban Melrose Park, a Chicago suburb that was drawing Hispanics.

Melrose returned to ESPN television on January 1, 2009 in conjunction with the Winter Classic that same day between the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks.

Many blues artists were brought to the label by talent scout and record producer Lester Melrose, who had a virtual monopoly on the Chicago blues market.

In the mid-1950s, Kimball built a luxurious new factory in the Chicago suburb of Melrose Park, Illinois, but the factory's high costs, its poor performance, and flagging sales brought the company into grave financial crisis.

McCoy has also worked regularly on television ; his credits include starring in the NBC sitcom We Got It Made, and guest appearances on Murder, She Wrote, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Golden Girls, The Nanny, L. A. Law, Melrose Place, NYPD Blue, Chicago Hope, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Six Feet Under, The West Wing, Carnivàle, CSI: NY and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

The Richardson Company of Melrose Park, Illinois and Indianapolis supplied the circuit board material to Croname of Chicago, IL who manufactured the circuit boards.

Lester Melrose ( December 14, 1891 – April 12, 1968 ) was one of the first American producers of blues records.

As was the widespread custom at the time ( and not just in blues music ), Melrose often assigned composer credit and performance rights of the artists ' songs to himself, paying the artists only for the record session.

* Walter Breuning-He was the oldest man in the world before he died April 14, 2011 ; born in Melrose in 1896.

Shortly before 664 Alhfrith gave Wilfrid a monastery he had recently founded at Ripon, formed around a group of monks from Melrose Abbey, followers of the Irish monastic customs.

The highways pass through Melrose, St. Vrain, and Grier before widening out to a four-lane highway as they approach Clovis, the Curry County seat.

The series, like Melrose Place before it, is a spin-off from the original 1990s show Beverly Hills, 90210, marking Estes ' third appearance in the franchise.

Leslie had arrived at nearby Melrose the evening before, and advanced up the valley of the Tweed, driving in the Royalist outposts at Sunderland ( at the junction of the Ettrick Water with the Tweed, about downstream of Selkirk ) without apparently alarming or alerting the main Royalist force.

In 2008, Gray appeared in The CW series 90210, which, like Melrose Place and Models Inc. before it, is a spin-off from the original Beverly Hills, 90210.

An earlier monastery was founded by, then later dedicated to, Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne shortly before his death in 651, at Old Melrose, then in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, on a site about two miles ( 3 km ) east of Melrose Abbey.

She was educated in Duffy, and at Melrose High School and Stirling College ( now Canberra College ( Weston Campus )), before completing a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Sociology at the Australian National University in 1990.

It then descended at a similar rate to Galashiels, Melrose and St Boswells before reaching Hawick and ascending for 12 miles at 1 in 80 through Stobs and Shankend to Whitrope Summit, the highest point on the line.

According to ESPN's Barry Melrose, Hollweg escaped serious injury because Simon's blow caught his shoulder pads before hitting his face.

Two of her best-known skits included her as an elderly Jewish woman on Coffee Talk with Mike Myers, and her acting as Amanda Woodward in a Wayne's World skit with Myers, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, and Phil Hartman, where Wayne has a dream that he is a character on Melrose Place.

She also had guest appearances in Roseanne, Boy Meets World, Coach, Melrose Place, Baywatch, Married ... with Children and Highway to Heaven.

Melrose House gained fame during the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ) when Lord Roberts requisitioned it as the headquarters for the British forces after Pretoria was invaded in June 1900.

Melrose is the estate of John T. McMurran, a lawyer and state senator who was a planter in Natchez from 1830 until the Civil War.

Peter John " Jack " Wagner, II ( born October 3, 1959, Washington, Missouri ) is an American actor and singer, best known for his roles on the soap operas General Hospital, Santa Barbara, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Melrose Place.

Finding that the army of Richard II of England was numerically superior to the Franco-Scots, Douglas allowed the English to advance to Edinburgh, wisely refusing battle, the English army destroyed the Abbies of Melrose, Newbattle and Dryburgh, as well as burning the burgh's of Haddington and the capital itself.

In 1451, along with the abbot of Melrose Abbey, he received a safe-conduct to allow him to make a pilgrimage to Canterbury, and in 1452 he became Master of the Household to James II.

Furthermore, while Anderson dated Melrose 192 with reference to Abbot William III de Courcy ( abbot of Melrose from 1215 to 1216 ), Oram identified Abbot William as Abbot William II ( abbot from 1202 to 1206 ).

Witness to both grants were some prominent churchman connected with Melrose: magnates like Earl Donnchadh II of Fife, the latter's son Máel Coluim, Gille Brigte, Earl of Strathearn, as well as probable members of Donnchadh's retinue, like Gille-Osald mac Gille-Anndrais, Gille-nan-Náemh mac Cholmain, Gille-Chríst Bretnach (" the Briton "), and Donnchadh's chamberlain Étgar mac Muireadhaich.

It is often referred to as " Hotel Melrose " by students due its large rooms, new facilities, and overall tranquility and cleanliness.

Chadwick commissioned a Sydney architect, Byera Hadley ( later to become the leading architectural academic in NSW ), to build a large house on the land which he named " Melrose ".

Melrose Park was the name of the large housing estate here established in 1937.

Owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway as part of its W Line, the Saluda Grade in Polk County, North Carolina consists of a three-mile section of track that rises over in elevation with a highest official grade of 4. 7 % but reaching 5. 1 % at one point between the towns of Melrose and Saluda.

It contains the communities of: Bonavista, Spillars Cove, Birchy Cove, Newman's Cove, Amherst Cove, Elliston, Little Catalina, Knights Cove, Stock Cove, King's Cove, Duntara, Keels, Open Hall, Redcliff, Tickle Cove, Plate Cove, Summerville, Princeton, Southern Bay, Charleston, Sweet Bay, Bloomfield, Lethbridge, Brooklyn, Portland, Jamestown, Winterbrook, Catalina, Port Union and Melrose.

The Southern boundary largely followed Melrose Ave, but extended further South including areas bordered by Fairfax Ave to the East, Rosewood Ave to the South and extending to the West Hollywood boarder past Sweetzer Ave to the West.