This West Seattle street was created in 1937 as part of Forest View Tracts, an addition to the City of Seattle. At the time, it truly was in the middle of the forest, and still today Fauntleroy Park, “a densely wooded patch of forest in West Seattle,” lies to its north and east.
Forest Court SW begins at SW Roxbury Street between 41st Avenue SW and 42nd Avenue SW and goes around 800 feet north to a Fauntleroy Park trailhead.
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.
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