Community leaders in the Perkins area saw other neighborhoods had used imposing concrete structures to help identify the neighborhood, Lewis said.

An assisted living center had once stood on a portion of the Perkins elementary site; the neighbors decided to incorporate part of a decorative wall from that old structure in their new neighborhood marker.

A portion of that old wall remains at the south border of the Perkins Elementary property. Two steep pyramid-shaped structures, similar to the Perkins Neighborhood marker at the corner of 22nd Street and 14th Avenue S, border the school as part of the wall.