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Last year, the nonprofit Nuçi’s Space launched a 60-day crowdfunding campaign aimed at restoring the steeple and helping to fund the organization’s health care assistance and other services it provides to local musicians.

Nuçi’s Space works to prevent suicide.

The St. Mary’s steeple - all that remains of the old St. Mary’s Church on Oconee Street, just up the hill from Nuci’s Space - occupies a special place in both local history and music history.

In 2013, Nuci’s Space acquired the then-ramshackle steeple as a gift from its previous owners, Steeplechase Condominiums.

The steeple has since been stabilized, and Nuci’s Space has plans for further renovation, including the addition of a meditative garden on the site.