History Loves Company — YouTube
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History Loves Company documents historic places, architecturally significant buildings, forgotten landmarks, and the people putting old spaces back to work.
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Featured Episode
Inside Pontiac’s Newest Marketplace: Micro-Shops, Podcasts & Vintage Finds!
Go behind the scenes as The Foundry takes shape inside the Riker Building — part preservation story, part small business experiment, and part love letter to downtown Pontiac.
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Every place has a story. We go find it.
History Loves Company connects real places to the people, objects, buildings, and memories that made them matter. From abandoned schools and forgotten mansions to downtown landmarks and historic homes, each episode is built to make people care about what is still standing.
The Foundry brings that same idea into the physical world: stories you can watch, objects you can hold, prints you can hang, and a space you can visit.
Historic Places
Buildings, neighborhoods, landmarks, estates, schools, downtowns, and places worth remembering.
Preservation Stories
The fight to save buildings, reuse old spaces, and protect the character that makes communities different.
Detroit & Michigan History
Deep dives into Michigan history, Detroit stories, Pontiac landmarks, forgotten industries, and local legends.
Behind The Foundry
Follow the process of building a market, studio, and community hub from the ground up in downtown Pontiac.
More Episodes
Watch the stories behind the places.
New episodes added as they are published. Subscribe on YouTube to follow the latest stories from Pontiac, Detroit, and across Michigan.
Detroit History
The Towers That Were Supposed to Save Detroit
Forgotten buildings, famous landmarks, demolition fights, neighborhood stories, and the city that built America.
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Pontiac Stories
Inside Pontiac’s Secret Tunnels
The buildings, businesses, people, and comeback stories shaping downtown Pontiac and the surrounding community.
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Historic Real Estate
Inside Detroit’s Most Iconic Historic Neighborhood: Boston-Edison
Historic homes, preservation-minded ownership, rare properties, adaptive reuse, and the stories real estate can tell.
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See the paperback and hardcover editions of They Lied to Us About Detroit, with signed and unsigned options.
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Take the story home.
Every History Loves Company episode starts with a real place. The Foundry connects those stories to prints, artifacts, apparel, vintage goods, and objects worth keeping.
HLC Originals
Artifact Prints
Museum-quality prints of Michigan’s historic places.
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Artifacts & Americana
Antiques, ephemera, and objects with provenance.
Browse Artifacts →Featured
Schwinn Collection
Vintage Schwinn bicycles and memorabilia.
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Pontiac Built
Apparel and objects celebrating Pontiac’s identity.
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Wearable History
T-shirts, longsleeves, and hats from HLC and The Foundry.
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Vintage & Found
Vintage clothing, furniture, collectibles, and found objects.
Browse Vintage →Follow Chris Hubel & History Loves Company
Michigan history, historic places, new videos, and stories from The Foundry. Follow along on your favorite platform.
Stories We Keep
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