This West Seattle street was created in 1924, along with Heights Place SW, as part of the plat of Hunnel Heights, an Addition to the City of Seattle, named for James (1857–1925) and Mamie Hunnel (1868–1951). Why it wasn’t Hunnel Avenue instead, I’m not sure.
Heights Avenue SW beings at 41st Avenue SW between SW Frontenac Street and SW Holly Street and goes 350 feet northwest to 42nd Avenue SW.
Born and raised in Seattle, Benjamin Donguk Lukoff had his interest in local history kindled at the age of six, when his father bought him settler granddaughter Sophie Frye Bass’s Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle at the gift shop of the Museum of History and Industry. He studied English, Russian, and linguistics at the University of Washington, and went on to earn his master’s in English linguistics from University College London. His book of rephotography, Seattle Then and Now, was published in 2010. An updated version came out in 2015.
