Complex sentence: Originally built as the Exchange Hotel by Henry Reichle in 1856, in 1927, William Zehnder, Sr. purchased the hotel and remodeled the building, including redesigning the facade to look like Mount Vernon.
Split into simpler sentences: Originally built as the Exchange Hotel by Henry Reichle in 1856. In 1927, William Zehnder, Sr. purchased the hotel remodeling the building, including redesigning the front of the building to look like Mount Vernon.