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Melrose is a rural village in northeastern East Windsor, Connecticut. Centered at the crossroads of Broad Brook Road and Melrose Road, it was granted in the 1700s and developed as an agrarian village center in the 19th century. A landscape of beyond 250 acres (100 ha), including farmland, period farmhouses, ruins of a little distillery, and a district schoolhouse (now a library) was listed upon the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

Melrose is located in northeastern East Windsor, a historically agricultural town opposite Windsor upon the eastern bank of the Connecticut River. The village is well removed from that river, occupying an area bounded on the west by the Scantic River, on the south by Broad Brook, and upon the north and east by the against towns of Enfield and Ellington. The village is today Tiny more than a cluster of homes centered upon the junction of Broad Brook Road and Melrose Road, extending mainly to the east and west along Melrose Road. Land use patterns in this area are relatively Tiny changed from the 19th century, with houses set relatively near the road and agricultural lands in strips in back them. The principal non-residential elements of the Place are a small cemetery, the 19th-century district schoolhouse (which now houses a small library), and the remains of a little distillery upon the banks of Broad Brook at the southern edge of the area.

The houses in the district were mostly built in the 19th century, with a number of 20th century intrusions. There are numerous barns and supplementary farm outbuildings in the area, an indicator of its long chronicles of agricultural use. Many of the barns date to the late 19th or at the forefront 20th century, but there are a cross-section of older barns as well, illustrating the shifting uses of the land higher than time.