Wayne · Oakland · Macomb
Detroit is the starting point. The Southeast Michigan collection widens the view: city neighborhoods, historic downtowns, industrial corridors, and the places people call home across Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties.
Explore the Southeast Michigan region
Begin with Detroit and Pontiac, then follow the region’s historic downtowns, neighborhoods, industrial places, and waterfront communities. This collection grows place by place as each story gains films, research, and local voices.
Detroit & Wayne County
Start in Detroit with neighborhood stories, historic districts, architecture, and films about the city and its river.
Explore the story →Pontiac & Oakland County
Explore Pontiac’s district guides, its downtown building archive, and The Foundry in the Riker Building.
Explore the story →Help build the Macomb collection
Help open the next chapter: share a historic downtown, a lakeshore place, a family archive, or a building whose story deserves attention.
Explore the story →Places to begin
Explore HLC
Thirty connected guides introduce residential streets, markets, commercial blocks, and industrial places.
Explore the story →Explore HLC
Franklin Boulevard, Seminole Hills, Fairgrove Avenue, GM housing, and the downtown commercial district.
Explore the story →Pontiac commercial archive
Read individual building histories, watch HLC films, and ask about commercial buying and leasing.
Explore the archive →The connections matter
A regional history becomes richer when we look at what moves between places: people, jobs, materials, ideas, and stories. Use these guides as starting points for comparing neighborhoods and understanding how a building belongs to a larger landscape.
Pontiac is also HLC’s physical home through The Foundry. It gives this digital archive a place to gather, discover local makers, and keep conversations about old places going.
Watch Southeast Michigan
Explore a downtown Pontiac building with Chris, then continue through the building archive.
Watch on YouTube ↗Follow another Southeast Michigan story through HLC’s film archive.
Watch on YouTube ↗History Loves Company
Watch the films, read They Lied to Us About Detroit, and meet HLC in person at The Foundry in downtown Pontiac.
History Loves Company 35 W Huron St #100, Pontiac, Mi, 48342
400 S Old Woodward Ave Ste 100
Birmingham MI 48009
History Loves Company 35 W Huron St #100, Pontiac, Mi, 48342
400 S Old Woodward Ave Ste 100
Birmingham MI 48009