The facility consists of a complex built around the historic U.S. Customhouse, originally designed to service the U.S. side of the Niagara River border crossings from Canada.

Completed in July 2016, the facility replaced Amtrak's former Niagara Falls station for passenger rail service on December 6, 2016.

With Niagara Falls receiving the second highest amounts of American imports at one point, the customhouse was once a very busy post for its inspectors.

[10] Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, the building is now owned by the city of Niagara Falls who purchased it in 2003.

The second floor of the customhouse is occupied by U.S. Customs and Border Protection which uses it as a processing facility for passengers coming from Canada on the Maple Leaf.

Other exhibits include a recreation of the Cataract House, a Niagara Falls hotel that employed an entirely African-American wait staff, who helped numbers of former slaves to freedom in Canada[11] and a recreation of the International Suspension Bridge, built in 1848, and rebuilt in 1855 to incorporate rail traffic, where Harriet Tubman and other former slaves crossed into Canada.

The project was completed in three phases including the stabilization of the existing customhouse building and upgrades to the nearby bridge.

[22] GO Transit currently stops at the Niagara Falls, Ontario station as it is part of the service's Lakeshore West line.