Melrose Estate is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Until the early 2000s, the suburb had many traditional houses, which are rapidly giving way to cluster house complexes.[citation needed]
History
The land at the Melrose Estate of 713 acres was bought by business man Henry Brown Marshall in 1893.[2]: 72 He would plant trees on the estate and build his home there.[2]: 68 When the suburb was developed, the street Glenhove Road, that passes through the suburbs of Oakland, Melrose and Houghton was named after Marshall's birth estate in Scotland, Glenhove.[2]: 72
