Colonial Hall was one of three apartment buildings that went up in the early 1920's along the Kew Gardens side of Union Turnpike between Queens Boulevard and Austin Street. In those days, Union Turnpike was a tree lined boulevard, and it was possible to walk out the front door of Colonial Hall and cross the street to Kew Forest Lane, from which these two scenes are viewed. That changed in the mid-1930's when the Interboro (Jackie Robinson) Parkway came through and left a canyon between Kew Gardens and Forest Hills.