Ladson Presbyterian Church

{{short description|Historic church in South Carolina, United States}}

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| name = Ladson Presbyterian Church

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| image = Ladson Presbyterian Church.jpg

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| location = 1720 Sumter St., Columbia, South Carolina

| coordinates = {{coord|34|0|33|N|81|2|7|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = South Carolina#USA

| map_caption = Location in South Carolina##Location in United States

| built = 1838 (a chapel), 1896 (rebuilt)

| architect = Ziegler, Daniel G. & Co.; Heidt, H.G.

| architecture = Renaissance

| added = April 30, 1998

| area = less than one acre

| refnum = 98000419{{NRISref|2009a}}

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Ladson Presbyterian Church is a historic African American Presbyterian church located at 1720 Sumter Street in Columbia, South Carolina. The religious building was initially a chapel founded in 1838 and, rebuilt in 1896, and is a one-story-over-raised-basement, rectangular red brick building in the Renaissance Revival style. It has a front gable roof and features two brick entrance towers. The congregation was founded in 1838, as an offshoot congregation of the First Presbyterian Church.{{Cite web | last = Rossman | first = Trina S. |author2=Andrew W. Chandler | title = Ladson Presbyterian Church | work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = October 27, 1997 | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/richland/S10817740126/S10817740126.pdf | format = pdf | accessdate = 19 August 2012}}{{Cite web | title = Ladson Presbyterian Church, Richland County (1720 Sumter St., Columbia) | work = National Register Properties in South Carolina | publisher = South Carolina Department of Archives and History | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/richland/S10817740126/index.htm | accessdate = 19 August 2012}}

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.