The Benedictine abbey of Vaux-sur-Poligny had become a minor seminary in the 19th century. In 1870, his superior, Abbé Petit, bought the mill east of the former abbey, together with his niece who married Louis Milcent, an auditor on the Conseil d'Etat.
This follower of the social ideas of the Marquis de la Tour du Pin and of Count Albert de Mun found there a rural settlement which made him the founder of the agricultural union of the borough of Poligny in 1884 then the co-founder in 1885 of the association of mutual credit of the borough de Poligny - First local agricultural credit union, with Alfred Bouvet and the Marquis de Froissard.
In the meantime, he had developed the Vaux estate. The bisontin architect Ducat was commissioned to build a spacious house on the base of the mill, perpendicular to the valley. The landscape architect Brice Michel designed the park, staging the course of the Glantine. Common and a farm are arranged along the national road from which a gate and a street give access to the property.
It also has a funeral chapel on the south side. The main building retains the original distribution and decoration. Complete, well-preserved and relatively well-documented, this castle is distinguished from similar houses of this period by the exceptional development of a remote site characteristic of the Jura.