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Their true style is easily shown in this photograph with mid-century magic and makes the Heim’s home one-of-a kind.
The outside ambiance of Dave & SueAnn Heim’s home in Prairie Village.
Remaining True to Their Style Dave and SueAnn Heim’s home is a showplace for mid-century modern design.
Words by LEIGH ELMORE Photos by MARGARET MELLOTT & ELLEN LEINWETTER
W hen Dave and SueAnn Heim purchased their home in Prairie Village 12 years ago, they knew they were buying a little of Kansas City’s architectural heritage. The low- slung ranch house was one of a selection of mid-century modern houses in the metro area that were designed and built by architect David Runnels and developer Don Drummond in the 1950s. Dave describes their house as an “exploded version of the Revere Home”, referencing a style of housing that was championed at the time as examples of low-cost, high-quality living. A group of Revere Homes that Runnels designed still survive on Roe Circle, off Roe Avenue between Tomahawk Road and 75th Street. They are small two-bedroom houses
built immediately after World War II while the country was still in a defensive posture. The homes were supposed to demonstrate the homeowners’ commitment to conserving critical materials, while still enjoying the utmost in livability at a low cost. The Heim’s “exploded Revere” built in 1957 takes the basic design and enlarges upon it, creating an open, inviting and light-filled space, perfect for displaying the couple’s collection of mid-century modern furnishings collected over the last 20 years; not to mention raising their daughter, Mazey. “Our house was the last one built by the Runnels/Drummond collaboration,” Dave said. “We did an alteration before moving in,” Dave said. “One part of it was re-doing the
Dave, SueAnn and daughter Mazey.
“The house is all about the internal and external connection of space.”
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