WILTON – A landmark goes on the auction block Tuesday.

A 220,000-square-foot, three-story former woolen mill and croquet making plant at 516 Depot St. is planned to be auctioned off at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the site.

The building built by the Goodspeed family in about 1928 was operated as a woolen mill, said Wilton historian Warren Rollins.

It was a heck of growing business during World War II, he said.

It produced woolen cloths for the military and upholstery for car seats and more, he said.

Rollins said his mother worked there for a time in the weaving room.

When Forster’s owned it, they made croquet sets and built a lot of the machinery the company used for its other products in a machine shop at the building, he said.

It has also been used as a warehouse.

It is now owned by a company named Infrastructure and the primary is Ken Bustin of Wilton, said a representative of Tranzon Auction Properties in Portland.

Attempts to contact Bustin were unsuccessful Thursday.

There are about 20 acres that go with the building but they’re not all adjacent to the building. There’s a vacant lot across the street and another vacant parcel on the same side of the road but separated by a building not included in the property.

Those interested in bidding on the wood-and-masonry manufacturing building should arrive 30 to 45 minutes earlier than the auction starts to register as bidders.

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