Complex sentence: The Emporium was a department store founded in 1896 in San Francisco by Adolph Feiss as a co-operative of individually owned shops in a building owned by the Parrott estate.
Split into simpler sentences: The Emporium was a department store founded in 1896 in San Francisco. It was founded by Adolph Feiss as a co-operative of individually owned shops in a building owned by the Parrott estate.