America’s ‘most beautiful’ McDonald’s restaurant is a 19th century mansion

There’s a real-life McMansion on Long Island.

However, this mansion isn’t, because the time period might suggest, a low-cost, ostentatious home. Instead, it’s a 19th century mansion in New Hyde Park, New York, that has been was a McDonald’s restaurant. 

The mansion – which has hardwood flooring, a double staircase and the unique portico – was lately even dubbed the “most beautiful” McDonald’s within the U.S. by Insider.

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According to the outlet, the mansion was initially inbuilt 1795 as a farmhouse for a man named Joseph Denton. However, within the 1860s, it was transformed into a Georgian-style mansion, Atlas Obscura reported. Over the years, the mansion was reportedly repurposed as a funeral house and a number of other eating places.

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By 1986, McDonald’s purchased the rundown property for $1 million and deliberate to tear the home down so the corporate might construct a extra conventional fast food joint, Insider reported. However, residents weren’t proud of the plans and fought the chain till 1988, when the mansion grew to become a designated historic landmark.

McDonald’s ultimately agreed to revive the constructing – in change for permission to construct a drive-thru, per the New York Post. The McMansion lastly opened in 1991, wanting a lot the identical because it did within the Twenties, in keeping with Insider.

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When it opened 30 years in the past, a meals critic famous that the meals was “exactly the same,” whatever the extra upscale location, the Post reported.

The solely important exterior change made to the restaurant because it opened embrace portray the shutters black, as an alternative of the unique sea inexperienced. The restaurant additionally added self-order kiosks and digital menu boards in 2017, in keeping with the outlet.