The East Side is a Melrose, Massachusetts neighborhood located on the east side of the city. It stretches roughly from Lebanon Street east to the Saugus, Massachusetts line and is positioned in between the

Mount Hood Golf Club Mount Hood is an 18 hole golf club and park located in Melrose, Massachusetts. It was built in the 1930s on donated land as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration and once consisted of a ski area. Today, Mount Hood ...

neighborhood (to the south) and the Horace Mann neighborhood (to the north).

Description

The area was mostly built out in the early twentieth century with a large majority of the houses being Colonials and Victorians. A very popular spot in the East Side is the Melrose Common. The park consists of two softball fields, a basketball court, and a playground. The park is the only one of its kind in Melrose and serves as a central meeting place for citywide activities such as summer programs and Fourth of July festivities. The East Side also contains the two Melrose golf courses. One being Bellevue Golf Course, which is a 9-hole country club. The other golf course is named

The course consists of 18 holes and is a popular spot for sledding and ice skating in the winter.

Education

The East Side contains two Kindergarten to fifth grade elementary schools operated by

Melrose Public Schools Melrose Public Schools is the school district for Melrose, Massachusetts. The district controls several schools in the city and is led by superintendent Dr. Julie Kukenberger. Its offices are located at 360 Lynn Fells Parkway in Melrose. History P ...

: Winthrop School and Hoover School.

Transportation

The East Side is the closest Melrose neighborhood to Saugus and

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. Additionally,

MBTA The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as "the T") is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. The MBTA transit network in ...

bus route

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runs to and from

Melrose Highlands Melrose Highlands is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city of Melrose, Massachusetts. Formerly part of neighboring Stoneham, it became part of Melrose in the latter part of the nineteenth century. There were some addresses that had the zip ...

through the East Side to

Malden Center Station Malden Center station is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) intermodal transit station in Malden, Massachusetts. Located on an elevated grade above Pleasant Street in downtown Malden, it serves the rapid transit Orange Line an ...

Oak Grove Station Oak Grove station is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) intermodal transit station in the northern section of Malden, Massachusetts, just south of the Melrose border. It is the northern terminus of the rapid transit Orange L ...

on the

MBTA Orange Line The Orange Line is a rapid transit line operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) as part of the MBTA subway system. The line runs south on the surface from Oak Grove station in Malden, Massachusetts through Malden and Me ...

during the morning and evening rush hours as well as in the afternoon.

External links

Melrose Official Website
{{authority control Melrose, Massachusetts Neighborhoods in Massachusetts Populated places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts