U.S. Route 41 Business (Marquette, Michigan)

US 41) was a state trunkline highway that served as a business loop off US 41 and M-28 in Marquette, Michigan, along Washington and Front streets.

Jurisdiction over them was transferred to the city as part of a highway swap that resulted in the decommissioning of the trunkline in 2005.

A few blocks east past other businesses and restaurants, Washington intersects the southern end of Lincoln Avenue at another stoplight.

Washington Street turns to the southeast and heads downhill in the next block, which is bordered by some houses on the north side.

US 41 turned south one block away from Lake Superior; Front Street is also a commercial section of downtown.

[7] The former business loop has not been listed on the National Highway System,[8] a network of roads important to the country's economy, defense, and mobility.

[9] Marquette's founding settlers arrived in the area on May 18, 1849, to establish the community,[10] and the original thoroughfares were platted by 1855, including Washington and Front streets.

[18] (Under the original 1925 draft plan for the U.S. Highway System, US 102 was the number assigned to run through Marquette.

[20] The Marquette Bypass opened on November 21, 1963,[2] and the business loop was marked for the first time on the 1964 state highway map.

US 41 and the unsigned M-554 under city jurisdiction; at the same time, the state would take over a section of McClellan Avenue to extend M-553 to its current northern terminus at the Marquette Bypass.

US 41 was decommissioned when the city took control over Washington and Front streets; signage was removed on November 9, 2005, to complete the process.

US 41 through downtown Marquette, even years after the decommissioning of the designation,[29][30] and some local businesses and organizations continued to use it in their advertising.

[34] In 2010, the intersection between Front Street and the eastern end of the Marquette Bypass was converted into a roundabout configuration, opening to traffic on August 19.

Photograph looking east on the 100 block
Washington Street downtown
Photograph looking north on the 100 block
Front Street downtown
Photograph looking north on the 100 block
Front Street in 1909
Map of
Marquette in 1927