In 1923, brothers Philip (1888-1965) and Myer Kline (1891-1965), who immigrated to the United States from Lithuania, founded Kline Iron & Metal Company on the corner of Huger and Gervais Streets in Columbia, South Carolina. The business dealt in scrap metal recycling until 1935, when it purchased the equipment of the defunct Shands Steel and shifted its focus to the fabrication of structural steel. The company ultimately became one of the country’s leading broadcast tower fabricators, and it remained in the Kline family until it was sold to the American Tower Corporation in 2000.