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Brevillier Village

Housing and Health Care for Elders

 "When Quality of Life Matters"

Admissions, the provision of services, and referrals of residents shall be made without regard to race, color, religious creed, disability, ancestry, national origin, age or sex.

Program services shall be made accessible to eligible individuals with disabilities through most practical and economically feasible methods.  These methods include, but are not limited to, equipment redesign, the provision of aids, the use of alternative service delivery locations.  Structural modifications shall be considered only as a last resort among available methods.

In 1960, Mrs. Katherine Conrad Brevillier of Erie, Pennsylvania willed a 17 acre estate, located at 5436 East Lake Road, to the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul for religious, educational, and charitable purposes.  The first floor of the residence serves as a grocery store and meeting area for Village residents and staff.  The second floor houses administrative offices for Brevillier Village Foundation.  The foundation was established in 1986 to manage Brevillier Village activities.

Dean Frederic Richardson Murray, of the Cathedral of St. Paul, and a church committee planned the complex now known as Brevillier Village.  It was to be developed for the elderly person in three phases: a low-income, apartment-living residence; a long term nursing care facility; and a housing complex to provide personal care services.

The first phase, Conrad House, built with federal funds, opened in 1972.  This eight-story, 133-unit structure, built at the center of the Brevillier estate, was designed to give all residents a view of Lake Erie.  The main floor features meeting rooms and activity areas with the main lobby connected to the Brevillier house.  Katherine Brevillier's maiden name was Conrad, thus the name Conrad House.

The second phase, Ball Pavilion, opened as a licensed facility in November of 1977 and became home to 85 residents.  This one-floor building stands on the former location of the well-known Pussy Willow Tea Room.  It received its name from Miss Oceana Ball, whose estate was bequeathed to the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul in 1933.  This will specified that her residence at 61 East 6th Street, Erie, Pennsylvania be maintained for aged, respectable, maiden ladies, gentle women of the Protestant Episcopal Faith.  In 1977, with only two ladies remaining in the home, the court decreed the Cathedral form a non-profit corporation known as the Ball Pavilion.  This facility was rebuilt and reopened in August 1998 on the east side of the property.  Still named Ball Pavilion, the new facility is spacious and built to accommodate rehabilitation as well as long term care placement.

The third phase of the complex, Barnabas Court, opened in 1986 and memorialized the mission and spirit of St. Barnabas House By-The-Lake.  The 58-unit, semi-independent apartment complex strives to help residents maintain maximum independence by offering personal care services in a safe, secure environment.  In 1998, the original Ball Pavilion was converted into 50 more personal care units.  So the original Barnabas Court is called Barnabas Court South and the original building called Ball Pavilion is now called Barnabas Court North.  South is structured more for social model personal care and North is more medical personal care.