Burtram Collver Hopkins

Burtram Collver Hopkins II, known as "Bud" to his family and friends, was born in 1936 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Although raised in Ohio before WWII and Iowa after WWII, his home has been in Texas for the past sixty plus years. His interest in history, both architectural and familial, led him to write and publish three genealogy books about his paternal grandparents' ancestors and descendants. Knowledge of his great-great-granduncle, on his maternal side of the family, John Mills Van Osdel, did...See more

Burtram Collver Hopkins II, known as "Bud" to his family and friends, was born in 1936 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Although raised in Ohio before WWII and Iowa after WWII, his home has been in Texas for the past sixty plus years. His interest in history, both architectural and familial, led him to write and publish three genealogy books about his paternal grandparents' ancestors and descendants. Knowledge of his great-great-granduncle, on his maternal side of the family, John Mills Van Osdel, did not come to him until college. Bud attended Iowa State College and graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. After working for the university architect in Norman, Oklahoma, he was accepted to the graduate program of the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, and graduated with a master's degree in urban design. He became a licensed architect and practiced for about thirty years in Dallas, becoming a partner and then president of a regional architectural and planning firm. Professionally, he was a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Dallas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, of which he was president in 1989. He also was a director of the Texas Society of Architects, served on the Board of Visitors for the College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma for eight years, was a member of the National AIA Urban Design and Planning Committee, and director and treasurer of the American Society of Consulting Planners in the 1970s. He had a second career spanning about twenty-five years as a real estate consultant serving a variety of building types and both vacant and undeveloped land. Bud, now retired, is an Emeritus member of the American Institute of Architects, and member of the Society of Architectural Historians, and Biographers International Organization. He now lives in Plano, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, with his wife Suzanne of forty-five years, and their cocker spaniel, Siri. See less