Complex sentence: Following the demolition of the old hotel, work began on the new Terre Haute House in the spring of 1927; it opened on July 2,1928 to great fanfare and high hopes.
Split into simpler sentences: Following the demolition of the old hotel, work began on the new Terre Haute House in the spring of 1927. It opened on July 2,1928 to great fanfare and high hopes.