Brevillier Village Housing and Health Care

The history of Brevillier Village had been shaped by four major influences: the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul, the Brothers of St. Barnabas Episcopal Home in Gibsonia PA, the Brevillier family and the Ball family.
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 elderly persons in three phases: an independent, low income, apartment-living residence; a long term nursing home care facility; and a housing complex to provide personal care services.

Conrad House
	The first phase, Conrad House, built with federal funds, opened in 1972. This eight-story, 133-unit structure, built at the center of 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.

Ball Pavilion
	Original Ball Home
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 as a home for aged, respectable, maiden ladies, for gentle women of the Protestant Episocopal Faith. In, 1977, with only two ladies remaining in the home, the court decreed the Cathedral form a non-profit corporation now known as the Ball Pavilion, Inc. This facility was rebuilt and reopened in August 1998 on the east side of the campus. Still named Ball Pavilion, the new facility is spacious and built to accommodate rehabilitation as well as long term care placements.
	New Ball Pavilion 1998


Barnabas Court
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 building provides services in a safe, secure environment. In 1998, the original Ball Pavilion was converted into 50 personal care units.

The original Barnabas Court is called Barnabas Court South and the former Ball Pavilion is now called Barnabas Court North. The South building is structured for a social model personal care and the North building for a medical intensive personal care.