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HISTORY LOVES COMPANY
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STORIES WE KEEP
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A NOTE FROM CHRIS
It’s been a while.
Here’s what we’ve been building.
First, thank you for sticking with us. It’s been a few months since the last newsletter, and I’m grateful you’re still here.
History Loves Company has been very much alive behind the scenes. Between filming, researching, helping clients with historic homes, and telling Detroit stories, I’ve also been working to give all of those pieces a place to come together.
And now, they finally have one.
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WHAT WE’VE BEEN BUILDING
The Foundry by History Loves Company
In the historic Riker Building in downtown Pontiac, History Loves Company now has a physical home.
The Foundry is part creator marketplace, part vintage mercantile, part small-business incubator, part podcast studio, and part community gathering space. More than 20 active vendors are already building inside it.
The idea is simple: old places can have meaningful new chapters. Small businesses deserve room to grow, historic objects deserve another life, and downtowns thrive when people gather, create, and invest in them.
35 W Huron Street, Suite 101 · Historic Riker Building · Downtown Pontiac
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THE NEXT CHAPTER
Detroit is still the center of gravity.
The streets, neighborhoods, factories, train stations, mansions, transformations, and reinventions of Detroit are still at the heart of what I want History Loves Company to document.
But the release schedule is changing. We’re also giving the channel a more consistent weekly rhythm, with two regular premiere days:
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WEDNESDAY PREMIERES
Streets of History
The original series returns with deeper neighborhood and place-based stories — the roads we drive, the places we pass every day, and the architecture that helps explain how Detroit and Michigan became what they are.
Watch Streets of History →
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SUNDAY PREMIERES
They Lied to Us
This is our new deep-dive series. Urban renewal. Downtown change. Lost train stations. Factories. Architecture. We’ll revisit familiar stories, add context, and explore the pieces that often get overlooked.
The goal is context, curiosity, and a fuller picture of how the places around us came to be.
Subscribe for Sunday premieres →
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HOMES WITH STORIES
The real estate work never stopped either.
Two of the homes I’m representing right now are a good example of why History Loves Company and real estate fit naturally together: each has a story, a sense of place, and details worth understanding before the next chapter begins.
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ANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP · CIRCA 1840
1575 Earhart Road
$1,700,000 · 5 bedrooms · 3 baths · 3,549 sq. ft. · 1 acre
A restored stone farmhouse where the 1840s are still visible in the soft pine floors, exposed stone, wavy glass, and historic outbuildings — now paired with a redesigned kitchen, updated baths, modern mechanicals, and a setting just minutes from downtown Ann Arbor.
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HAZEL PARK · BUILT 1937
39 W Elza Avenue — The Bottle House
$299,900 · 2 bedrooms · 1 bath · 1,225 sq. ft.
One of Metro Detroit’s most unforgettable pieces of folk architecture: a home built with more than 20,000 embedded glass bottles. It has been substantially updated inside while preserving the exterior that made it a local landmark in the first place.
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COMING SOON · PONTIAC
What could 1331 Baldwin become next?
1331 Baldwin Road, Pontiac · Asking $300,000
This is the kind of property that invites a little imagination — not just for what it is today, but for what it could become next.
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