Other than signs for historic districts, neighborhood signs don’t generally exist in the City, yet there are some sprinkled about town. No one really seems to know where the Columbia Heights/Park View/Pleasant Plains sign originated, but it is clearly lacking in both quality and its misplaced location (Georgia Ave @ Irving Street).
Crestwood has some very nice ironwork signs when you are at the intersection of Blagden Avenue and Mathewson.
And, if you are in the vicinity of South Dakota Avenue, 26th and Irving Streets, NE, Woodridge has erected some nice signs there.
As I ponder neighborhood signs, it seems to me that they would be a good idea. 
Not only would they demystify just where neighborhoods are, the Crestwood sign shows that they can also add beauty to a neighborhood.
If Park View were to have neighborhood welcome signs, three locations readily come to mind.
- The reserve at Rock Creek Church Road, Park Place, and 5th Street, NW;
- The entrance to Park View where Kenyon crosses Park Place; and,
- The intersection of Columbia Road where Warder begins.
What do you think? Are neighborhood welcome signs an asset to an area that not only helps identify an area but also adds beauty, or, are they useless and arbitrary?
"The territory comprising Park View extends from Gresham Street north to Rock Creek Church Road, and from Georgia Avenue to the Soldiers' Home grounds, including the triangle bounded by Park Road, Georgia Avenue, and New Hampshire Avenue" (from Directory and History of Park View, 1921.)
Park View, D.C. 