Seligman Commercial Historic District, Historic district in Seligman, Arizona, US.

Seligman Commercial Historic District is a commercial area with railroad, automobile, and business structures from the early 20th century set along the original Route 66. The buildings date mostly from 1900 to 1960 and reflect the transportation infrastructure of that era.

Seligman began as Prescott Junction, a stop on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, which reached the site in 1882. It was renamed Seligman in 1886 after Jesse Seligman, a founder of J. & W. Seligman & Co., who helped finance the railroad. The original Prescott feeder line was replaced in 1891 by the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway, with its mainline junction moved to Ash Fork. The town later became a major livestock shipping center and a crew-change point between Winslow and Needles.

Seligman took its name in 1886 from Jesse Seligman, a founder of J. & W. Seligman & Co. of New York who helped finance the local railroad lines. The Snow Cap Drive-In, built in 1953 by Juan Delgadillo from scrap lumber he collected while working for the Santa Fe Railway, still trades on Route 66. The 1905 Pioneer Hall began as a theater and dance hall before becoming a drug store and soda fountain in 1930.

The district lies along Route 66 in central Seligman, roughly between 1st and Lamport Streets and Picacho and Railroad Avenues. It is a flat, walkable area; the buildings line the street, so you can view them from the sidewalk. Passenger trains no longer stop in Seligman, and Interstate 40 passes a few miles south of town.

Seligman calls itself the "Birthplace of Historic Route 66" because its residents persuaded the State of Arizona to designate Route 66 a historic highway in 1987. Westbound travelers here enter the longest uninterrupted stretch of the old road, about 160 miles to Topock on the Colorado River.