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Just to the west of Old Town is the city's oldest planned residential expansion. This classic[opinion] turn of the 20th Century neighborhood continues the ambience of Old Town with a gradual transition to Arts and Crafts and other styles of traditional American domestic architecture.[citation needed] The atmosphere in this idyllic district is often said[by whom?] to recall the art of Norman Rockwell.[citation needed][opinion] Called by its creators Rosemont in honor of a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania neighborhood of the same name, Rosemont was developed between 1900 and 1920. Rosemont extends from the foot of Shuter's Hill, crowned by the George Washington National Masonic Memorial away to the north for a dozen blocks to the edge of Del Ray. Originally intended as a "streetcar suburb" connected to Washington, D.C. and George Washington's home at Mount Vernon by electric railroad, Rosemont, instead, became closely integrated into the life of the core of Alexandria. Much of Rosemont is included in a National Historic District intended to focus attention on the neighborhood's role as a showcase of early 20th Century home building styles.[citation needed] Television weatherman Willard Scott grew up here.