Which McDonald's restaurant design featured a red roof and yellow arches in the 1950s?

McDonald's 1950s restaurants used a red-and-white design featuring a red roof and yellow arches.

Architect Stanley Meston created the distinctive restaurant design for the McDonald brothers' rapidly expanding business. Its most memorable features were the large golden arches at the sides of the building, which could be seen by passing motorists and became an early foundation of McDonald's branding.

The buildings typically used bright red-and-white colors and a streamlined roadside appearance. This look made the restaurants easy to identify before the modern logo was unified into the familiar letter M.

The design is often confused with the later Mansard roof restaurants introduced in 1969. The earlier red-and-white style belongs to the chain's formative 1950s period, while the later buildings used darker colors and a different roof treatment.