 Griffith retired in 1880 and in September 1885, while in San Francisco with his wife and four youngest boys, his house burned down with no insurance.In 1886, Abram Griffith built a fine Victorian residence of Italianate architecture upon of land in Cacheville, CA (now Yolo).This High Victorian Italianate residence exists as the grand dame of the homes in the town, sitting on the edge of the commercial district on a large spacious lot on the bank of the Cache Creek, just outside Woodland.