Complex sentence: The land parcel on which the building sits featured the historic Schilling Gardens, the last remaining portion of a cultivated Japanese garden originally planted in 1886 behind spice magnate Agustus Schilling's victorian mansion once located on the West shore of Lake Merritt.
Split into simpler sentences: The land parcel on which the building sits featured the historic Schilling Gardens. The Shilling Gardens is the last remaining portion of a cultivated Japanese garden originally planted in 1886 behind spice magnate Agustus Schilling's victorian mansion once located on the West shore of Lake Merritt.