An abandoned Sears attached to the Columbia Mall. The mall is slowly dying as most are in the US.
Grand Forks
A vintage Jaguar parked in front of Tip Top Tanning storefront with a classic car parked in front, capturing small-town Americana and retro architecture in North Dakota.
Grand Forks
A weathered roadside billboard in the rural North Dakota, featuring shredded canvas fluttering in the wind, Americana photography by Mike Hess.
Grand Forks County
Vintage phone booth left in a field, unused for decades. Moss is growing on the roof and the inside.
Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota
Most of the year this fireworks stand is boarded up against the elements. But, during fireworks season it is cut throat marketing to get people to shop.
Grand Forks County
Most of the year this fireworks stand is boarded up against the elements. But, during fireworks season it is cut throat marketing to get people to shop.
Grand Forks County
A mid-century modern post office in Emerado, North Dakota, photographed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The image captures the isolation of rural America through a lack of human presence and 1960s architectural design.
Conceptual photography of a blank sign frame powered by an active utility line, symbolizing lost potential and the erasure of commerce in rural America.
Grand Forks
An abandoned van sitting on wooden blocks and cinder blocks in front of a thrift store, representing stalled movement and the decay of rural infrastructure.
East Grand Forks
A road sign waits during the off-season.
Grand Forks County
Fine art photography of an abandoned motel with a vintage 'Sleeping Rooms' sign. The image captures the decay of mid-century roadside Americana and the quiet isolation of the Midwestern landscape.
Grand Forks
My grandfather’s Buick parked in the back yard of his gas station-turned-house.
Arkansas
A stationary scissor lift and blank sign in front of a failed motel-to-nightclub conversion. The image represents interrupted progress and the economic stillness of rural North Dakota.
Grand Forks
A minimalist study of two weathered motel doors in slightly different shades of grey. Captured at a demolished mid-century motel in North Dakota, the image reflects on the history of squatters and the eventual erasure of once-thriving roadside hubs.
Grand Forks
Fine art photography of an abandoned red Honda Civic with a tire weighting down a broken trunk lid. Parked next to a weathered roadside building along a North Dakota highway, symbolizing the stalled movement and forgotten infrastructure of rural America.
Grand Forks
Plastic covers the windows of an abandoned road-side motel. It was demolished shortly after.
Grand Forks
Bullet holes in a stop sign used for target practice. At the intersection of a highway and gravel road. It is typical of most road signs when there is little to do in rural areas except roam the back roads looking for entertainment.
Grand Forks County
The balcony of an abandoned motel is missing and posing a safety risk, if anyone was using it. It was demolished shortly after.
Grand Forks
Left over cars and weeds are what is left in the former gas station that became a used car lot.
Grand Forks
The namesake of the Triple V Bar. The weathered siding speaks of another time when main street bustled and people gathered inside.
Buxton, ND
A beacon of prosperity in an otherwise shrinking town. The brightly painted exterior stands out against the fading backdrop.
Cavalier County
Architectural study of the Post Office in Hope, North Dakota; a minimalist composition exploring the irony of a shrinking town’s name against the backdrop of rural depopulation and mid-century decay.
Abandoned for years, this restaurant is now the home of forgotten meals.
Grand Forks
A tanning, laundry, red light therapy business has taken over a former service station.
Crookston, MN
Former service station seating that was long ago abandoned.
Crookston, MN