This street was created in 1926 as part of the Replat of a Portion of Blocks 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of North Beach, an Addition to the City of Seattle. I presume it was named, similarly to Montavista Place W and Viewmont Way W, for the neighborhood’s view of Puget Sound (“mar”) and the Olympic Mountains (“mount”).
Marmount Drive NW begins at NW 96th Street west of 26th Avenue NW and goes around 775 feet north to NW North Beach Drive.
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.