Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Vredenburgh Van Pelt, F.A.I.A., A.D.G.F., (February 24, 1874 1962) was an architectural historian, author, and American architect active in early to mid-twentieth-century New York City. He was a partner in Green & Van Pelt (1906), in Thompson & Van Pelt (1925), and Van Pelt, Hardy & Goubert (1928 1930). He had his offices in New York City and Patchogue, Long Island. Van Pelt was born in Philadelphia and attended private schools there until attending the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1904, he worked for Carrere and Hastings.