Complex sentence: These services were held through the 1860's lacking a specific, designated meeting location, (find out when Amherst Academy was torn down) so with funds collected from Amherst College faculty and townspeople, a chapel was erected in 1869.
Split into simpler sentences: These services were held through the 1860's lacking a specific, designated meeting location (find out when Amherst Academy was torn down). With funds collected from Amherst College faculty and townspeople, a chapel was erected in 1869.