Niagara Hobby & Craft Mart

Specialties

Niagara Hobby & Craft Mart focuses on products that you and your family can grow with… not grow out of.

Products that children can enjoy alone, parents can enjoy with their children, and grandparents can enjoy with their grandchildren.

Celebrating family, building traditions… all in one place.

Begin something today that you, your family and friends can enjoy for a lifetime at the store that combines quality, value, service, brands from around the globe, lots of fun, and so much more.

Bringing moms and dads, brothers and sisters, and family and friends together for generations.

A multi-​level interactive N-​Scale, HO-​Scale, O-​Scale, and G-​Scale train layout with a closed circuit camera and color monitors featuring a LIVE video feed from the railroad tracks in the rear of our building and train-​themed programs. Fully-​furnished and operational dollhouse displays– including Bostonian, valued at more than US$ 10,000.00.

Children (and their parents and grandparents) enjoy our six-​lane 200+ft Carrera ¹⁄₃₂^nd scale analog slot car track with ¹²⁄₁₅ volts and up to 45 amps per lane; Carrera Digital 132 slot car track; 32ft aluminum Pinewood Derby test track; «Thomas & Friends» play tables; Chuggington play table; Tegu and Kapla sustainable building blocks play tables…

History

Established in 1945.

Celebrating family, Building Traditions… all in one place…

Niagara Hobby & Craft Mart focuses on products that you and your family can grow with… not grow out of. Products that children can enjoy alone, parents can enjoy with their children, and grandparents can enjoy with their grandchildren.

We don’t mark-​up (or create) our retail prices and then offer a discount; what some retailers do to their customers. We discount every day… and always have!

Begin something today that you, your family and friends can enjoy for a lifetime at the store that combines quality, value, service, brands from around the globe, lots of fun, and so much more. Bringing moms and dads, brothers and sisters, and family and friends together for generations.

Meet the Business Owner

John K.

Business Owner

John Kavulich, Sr., founder of Niagara Model and Train Distributors and of Niagara Hobby & Craft Mart, philanthropist, and global traveler, died on 1 August 2003, after a brief illness upon returning from an extended overseas visit. He was seventy-​three years old.

Mr. Kavulich was born in Binghamton, NY. At an early age, he became interested in scale model wooden airplanes; and would eventually win numerous local, state, and regional competitions and awards. In 1944, at fifteen years of age, and while attending high school, he established the Binghamton Model Airplane Company, a retail hobby store, and in 1948 became the youngest individual ever to become a member of the Binghamton Chamber of Commerce.

As the retail hobby store became more successful, Mr. Kavulich expanded into the wholesale distribution of models, trains, and crafts. In 1954, he moved to Buffalo, NY, and established a company that would sell products to most of the largest retail chain stores in the USA.