At  the turn  of the century,  the burgeoning community  of Missoula recognized the  need for concrete sidewalks and  began securing contractors to pour  them in earnest. As a condition of  the contracts let by the City, builders  were required to identify their work with  a name and date in order to track the work  for warranty purposes. This requirement gave rise  to the use of concrete stamps. Our maternal great-grandfather,  James Skahan, entered the fray, pulling his first permit in 1909. His  initial stamp was circular in configuration bearing his name, a date and  the term “MAKER”. The decal on the Still Room window mimics that design. Sometime  in the 1920’s, the stamp evolved into the form appearing in the chunk of sidewalk incased  in the hallway floor, which was salvaged from Missoula’s west side. By the ‘50’s, our grandfather,  Frip Skahan, headed the company and was Missoula’s contractor of choice for sidewalk construction. His  crews would pour concrete in the morning, then grade and build forms for the next day’s pour in the afternoon. The pace of construction allowed for completion of ½ a city block per day. Building sidewalks at that rate soon made  Skahan “The most walked on name in Missoula.”