Complex sentence: Samuel Burrage Reed was an American architect of Corona, New York, and Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, active in mid-to-late and early twentieth-century America, particularly in New York State, New York City, and Connecticut.
Split into simpler sentences: Samuel Burrage Reed was an American architect of Corona, New York and Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. He was active in mid-to-late and early twentieth-century America, particularly in New York State, New York City, and Connecticut.