MONROE — Antique furniture, carpets, art work and accessories from the Gulick homestead in Sandy Hook will be sold at auction by Fairfield Auction of Monroe.  The colonial home straddling Interstate 84 on Church Hill Road has remained in the Gulick family over fifty years, but the history of the dwelling goes back much further.

Samuel Sanford II helped settle Indian Territory along the Pootatuck River in 1708. In 1711, Newtown was incorporated, and in 1712, Sanford was granted the right to build the town’s first gristmill. It was at this time that the Sanford house was first constructed as a small, one story, two bay, end chimney dwelling.

It was enlarged over the years and sold in 1905 to the Briscoe family, before being purchased by Karl Gulick in 1957.

The barn is among the earliest style built in Connecticut, an “English Barn” or “side-entry barn” with the door located on the eave side based on grain warehouses of the colonist’s homeland, with stalls for oxen still intact.

Highlights from the Gulick property include an Aaron Willard Jr banjo clock and a Victorian horse weathervane plucked from the roof of the barn.

Several antique carpets and a cast iron garden bench which sat on the back porch for decades will also be sold. The bench is identical to some sixty other benches installed on the White House grounds in 1852, which lead to the design being called the Rose Garden bench.

In total, over 350 lots will be sold. Items from other estates include a wide array of antiques and fine art. Paintings by Charles Courney Curran, Antonio Bandeira, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and a small ink drawing by Richard Pousette-Dart are all expected to draw wide interest.

Fine jewelry and couture is led by an Hermes “Kelly” handbag, a ladies platinum Patek Phillipe wrist watch and a two-carat diamond ring.

French antique furniture, fine silver, mid-century modern, Asian art and Americana including a baseball signed by Babe Ruth and a Civil War era photo album filled with images of Union generals, Lincoln and members of his cabinet should also find bidders.

Fairfield Auction will have previews at its Monroe gallery Fridays and Saturdays, January 15-16 and 22-23, 11 am to 4 pm each day. They are free and open to the public. The gallery is at 707 Main Street in Monroe.

The gallery’s auctions are fully online; bidding for this collection, Antiques & Fine Art, opens January 13, and will continue until January 24. The collection can be viewed at fairfieldauction.com.

Call 203-880-5200 or visit the website for additional information.