Complex sentence: He graduated from Virginia Military Institute and owned Walnut Grove and married Miss Lucie Randolph of "Oakleigh" plantation and the client designed the house with inspiration drawn from Samuel Sloan's 1852 publication of "The Model Architect".
Split into simpler sentences: He graduated from Virginia Military Institute, owned Walnut Grove Plantation and married Miss Lucie Randolph of "Oakleigh" plantation. He and the client designed the house with inspiration drawn from Samuel Sloan's 1852 publication of "The Model Architect".