The Victoriana Steeves Homestead Bed and Breakfast is notable for its Carpenter Gothic-style architecture, as well as its time as the residence of the Blight family.

Erected in 1860 by Reverend John Hughes (who was then minster of the Hillsborough Baptist Church), the Victoriana Steeves Homestead Bed and Breakfast is built in the Carpenter Gothic style. At the time, this style was frequently seen in churches and other religious institutions. The steeply gabled roof with gingerbread trim is the main indicator of this style.

In 1870, Captain James Blight Sr., a mine developer, acquired the house after Rev. Hughes left to join a different ministry. Born in Cornwall, England (his title, ‘Captain’, being a Cornish word for ‘contractor’), Blight relocated to Hillsborough in 1845 as his American employers, Fowler and Co., wanted him to manage their gypsum quarries in the region. Blight soon became interested in the possibility of opening his own mine at Albert County’s albertite deposits. However, by the time of his arrival, the Albert Mines deposits were already under heavy development. For a decade, he searched for a new vein for mining. He even used diamond drills, which at the time were a revolutionary tool, but he ultimately was never able to find enough material to set up a proper quarry. Though his hunt proved fruitless, he later found success elsewhere by establishing two coal mines: the Dominion Coal Mines in Pictou and the Fenwick mine in Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia.

Blight's son, James Blight Jr., shared his father's career. While collaborating with J. B. King Co., New York, the younger Blight helped establish the gypsum quarries in Windsor, Nova Scotia. Additionally, starting in 1890, he developed a quarry of gypsum plaster, or Plaster of Paris, at Demoiselle Creek in Hillsborough. The plaster was so pure, hard, and white it could be used for molding straight out of the quarry.
 
A few other members of the Blight family are connected to the mining industry as well. James S. Blight was a Mount Allison graduate in engineering who later became manager of the Albert Manufacturing Co., which had at that point taken over his father’s gypsum operation. Meanwhile, George and Barry Blight served as superintendents at a plaster mill. 
 
The residence remained in the Blight family for many years. The family sold away the house in 1969, almost a century after they first acquired it. In the present day, it is a bed and breakfast known as the Victoriana Steeves Homestead Bed and Breakfast.