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                                                                    Exhibit 10.3

                         HUTTIG BUILDING PRODUCTS, INC.
                         EVA INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLAN

1.       Purpose.

         Huttig Building Products, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
has adopted an annual incentive compensation program based on the principles of
Economic Value Added ("EVA") throughout the Company. The purpose of the EVA
approach is to maximize stockholder value by aligning management's interests
with those of stockholders and rewarding management for sustainable and
continuous improvement in the business being managed.

         The Company has created this EVA Incentive Compensation Plan (the
"Plan") for certain executive officers of the Company subject to the limitations
of Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"),
and designated general managers and regional managers of the Company and its
subsidiaries (collectively, the "Participants" and individually, the
"Participant"). The Plan is intended to satisfy the specific requirements of
Section 162(m) of the Code, as outlined in regulations issued by the Internal
Revenue Service. This Plan shall become effective on December 16, 1999 (the
"Effective Date"). This Plan is intended to be, and shall be operated as, a
successor to Crane Co.'s EVA Incentive Compensation Plan (the "Prior Plan") with
respect to the participation of employees of the Company who were participating
in the Prior Plan prior to the Effective Date.

2.       Administration.

         The Plan will be administered by the Organization and Compensation
Committee of the Board of Directors (the "Committee"). The Committee's decisions
in the administration of the Plan shall be final and binding on all parties. The
Committee shall have the sole discretionary authority to interpret the Plan, to
establish and modify administrative rules for the Plan, to designate the
employees eligible to participate in the Plan, to establish and adjust any EVA
formula or calculation as provided in Sections 3 and 4, to impose such
conditions and restrictions on awards under the Plan as it determines
appropriate, and to take such steps in connection with the Plan and awards made
under the Plan as it may deem necessary or advisable. The Committee may employ
attorneys, consultants, accountants or other persons and the Committee and the
Company and its officers and directors shall be entitled to rely upon the
advice, opinions or valuations of any such persons. All usual and reasonable
expenses of the Committee shall be paid by the Company. No Committee member
shall receive compensation with respect to his or her services for the Committee
except as may be authorized by the Board. All actions taken and all
interpretations and determinations made by the Committee in good faith shall be
final and binding upon all employees who have received awards, the Company and
all other interested persons. No member of the Committee shall be personally
liable for any action, determination or interpretation taken or made in good
faith with respect to this Plan or awards made hereunder, and all members of the
Committee shall be fully indemnified and protected by the Company in respect of
any such action, determination or interpretation.
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3.       Definition of EVA and Description of Formulae.

         EVA is defined as the difference between the return on total capital
invested in the business and the cost of capital, multiplied by total capital
employed ("EVA Calculation"). The Plan will be formula driven. The primary EVA
formula shall be for the Company as a whole but particular EVA formulas may be
tailored by the Committee to the size and unique characteristics of the business
unit or units for which a specific executive is responsible. The key elements of
the EVA formula applicable to any executive will be the Cost of Capital
(generally the cost of capital to the Company), the Return on Capital, the
Amount of Capital employed in the business unit, the net operating profit of the
unit after tax, and the prior year's EVA. Awards will be calculated on the basis
of year-end results.

         Formulas may utilize both a percentage of the change in the EVA of the
Company or a business unit from the prior year, whether positive or negative,
plus a percentage of the positive EVA, if any, in the current year; the EVA
award may be calculated for the entire Company or an entire business unit and an
executive may receive a percentage of a unit's EVA award. When an executive is
responsible for more than one business unit, a formula may be based on a
percentage of the aggregate EVA, positive or negative, of the units reporting to
the executive or unit. The Committee has the discretion and authority to develop
other EVA based formulae or goals for utilization pursuant to this Plan in
future years. In any instance in which an executive participates in a unit EVA
award in which a group of employees participates, the executive's percentage of
the unit's EVA award will be specified.

4.       Procedure.

         Before the beginning of each fiscal year, the Committee will establish
and set forth in writing the EVA formula applicable to each Participant for that
year (including the percentage of any business unit EVA award in which he or she
may participate). The Committee will retain discretion to revise formulas or a
Participant's percentage participation in any unit EVA award if the Committee
deems it appropriate as circumstances develop during the year; provided,
however, in the case of an executive officer who is subject to the limitations
of Section 162(m) of the Code, such revision may only have a negative effect on
the amount of such executive officer's award for the year. As soon as is
reasonably practicable after the year ends, the Committee will review the EVA
calculation, calculate the EVA award for each Participant pursuant to the
formula established at the beginning of the year (revised downward if the
Committee so determines), and certify the EVA incentive compensation award for
each Participant to the Board of Directors; provided, however, that no EVA award
with respect to any executive officer who is subject to the limitations of
Section 162(m) of the Code may exceed $2,000,000 for any particular year.

5.       Allocations to Participants' Bank Accounts Under the Plan.

                  a. General. Every year, the EVA award will be credited (if the
         award is positive) or debited (if the award is negative) to the
         Participant's account. Each

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         Participant's account will consist of a cash subaccount and a stock
         subaccount. Each year's EVA award will be allocated to the
         Participant's account in accordance with the following provisions of
         this Section 5.

                  b. Prior Plan Transfer. If the Participant has an EVA account
         balance (either positive or negative) under the Prior Plan, such
         account balance will be transferred to the Plan and become the
         Participant's initial account balance under the Plan as of the
         Effective Date.

                  c. 1999 EVA Award Allocation. As soon as administratively
         practicable after each Participant's EVA award is determined for the
         year ending December 31, 1999, each Participant's award will be
         credited or debited, as the case may be, to the Participant's account.
         Each Participant who has a positive EVA account balance (consisting of
         any amount transferred from the Prior Plan under Section 5(b) and the
         Participant's 1999 EVA award) may elect, on a one-time basis under
         procedures established by the Committee, to allocate his or her
         accumulated account balance as follows:

                  (i)      100% to the cash subaccount; or

                  (ii)     50% to the cash subaccount and 50% to the stock
                           subaccount.

         If a Participant fails to make a valid election for the allocation of
         his or her EVA account balance, 100% of the Participant's balance will
         be allocated to the Participant's cash subaccount. If the Participant
         elects to allocate 50% of his or her EVA account to a stock subaccount,
         the stock allocated to such account will be subject to the provisions
         of Section 7.

                  d. Subsequent Elections and Allocations. At the beginning of
         each fiscal year commencing with fiscal year 2000, each Participant
         will be entitled to make an election, on a form provided by the
         Committee, with respect to the allocation of the EVA award that will be
         determined under the formula established under Section 3 for that
         fiscal year. The Participant may elect to allocate his or her EVA award
         for that year as follows:

                  (i)      100% to the cash subaccount; or

                  (ii)     50% to the cash subaccount and 50% to the stock
                           subaccount.

         If a Participant fails to make a valid election for the allocation of
         his or her EVA award for a particular year, 100% of the Participant's
         EVA award for that year will be allocated to the Participant's cash
         subaccount. After the EVA award for each Participant is determined, the
         EVA award will be allocated in accordance with the Participant's
         applicable election; provided, however, that if the Participant's EVA
         award for a particular year is negative, the award will be debited to
         the Participant's cash subaccount only and only in proportion to the
         Participant's allocation election. In other words, if the

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         Participant's EVA award is negative and the Participant elected an
         allocation of 50% of the award to his or her cash subaccount and 50% to
         his or her stock subaccount, 50% of the negative EVA award will be
         debited to the Participant's cash subaccount and the remaining 50% will
         be ignored. If any of a Participant's EVA award is allocated to the
         Participant's stock subaccount under the Participant's election, the
         stock allocated to such account will be subject to the provisions of
         Section 7.

                  e. Other Credits and Debits to Participants' Accounts. Each
         year, the Company will credit interest to a positive cash subaccount
         balance or debit interest on a negative cash subaccount balance at an
         appropriate money market rate.

6.       Annual Payout.

Each year, as soon as administratively practicable after each Participant's EVA
award has been determined and allocated to his or her account under Section 5,
each Participant with a positive cash subaccount balance will receive a payout
of a specified percentage of his or her cash subaccount, with the standard
payout percentage being one-third (1/3) of such balance. The remainder of the
account balance will represent the Participant's "equity" in his or her EVA cash
subaccount for future years. If EVA awards are or have been negative, a cash
subaccount balance may be negative. In such case, the Participant will receive
no payout under the Plan until the aggregate of subsequent EVA awards results in
a positive cash subaccount balance.

7.       Provisions Relating to Stock Subaccounts.

                  a. Allocation of Stock to the Stock Subaccount. With respect
         to each amount allocated to a Participant's stock subaccount under
         Section 5(c) or Section 5(d), the Participant's stock subaccount will
         be credited with a number of shares of the Company's common stock equal
         to the dollar amount of such allocation (i.e., 50% of the Participant's
         account balance for allocations under Section 5(c) and 50% of the
         Participant's EVA award for a particular year for allocations under
         Section 5(d)) divided by the fair market value of the Company's common
         stock. For purposes of the Plan, "fair market value" means the average
         of the high and low trading prices of the Company's common stock on the
         New York Stock Exchange on the ten (10) consecutive trading days ending
         on the date of the allocation or the most recent prior date on which
         the Company's common stock was traded. No fractional shares will be
         credited to a Participant's stock subaccount; rather, any dollar amount
         of the Participant's allocation representing a fractional amount of the
         per share fair market value of the Company's common stock will be
         credited to the Participant's cash subaccount.

                  b. Restricted Stock. Shares of Company common stock allocated
         to a Participant's stock subaccount for a particular year will be
         issued as restricted stock issued under and generally subject to the
         provisions of the Company's 1999 Stock Incentive Plan. Pursuant to
         those provisions, each Participant will be required to enter into a
         restricted stock agreement with the Company with respect to stock
         allocated to his or her stock subaccount for a particular year.

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                  c. Vesting of Restricted Stock. The restricted shares of
         Company common stock issued to a Participant under Section 7(b) will
         vest over a period of two years as follows:

                  (i)      50% on the first anniversary of the allocation date;
                           and

                  (ii)     the remaining 50% on the second anniversary of the
                           allocation date.

                  d. Custody. During the period prior to the full vesting of any
         common stock allocated to a Participant's stock subaccount, the
         Company, or its designee, will hold the share certificates representing
         such common stock in custody for the benefit of the Participant.

                  e. Effect of Negative EVA Awards. In accordance with the
         provisions of Section 5(c), negative EVA awards in any year will have
         no effect on any Participant's stock subaccount or on the shares of
         restricted stock issued under this Section 7.

8.       Treatment of Participants' Accounts Upon Termination of Employment or
         Other Events.

                  a. General. If a Participant leaves the Company by reason of
         termination or resignation or ceases to be eligible to participate in
         the Plan, his or her account balance will be treated as follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
         EVENT                                DISPOSITION OF ACCOUNT BALANCE/RESTRICTED SHARES
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<S>                                           <C>
         - Terminate/quit                     Lose cash subaccount balance; forfeit unvested
                                              restricted shares

         - Removed from plan/demotion         Cash subaccount balance paid out in two
                                              equal installments on the second and third
                                              succeeding EVA payout dates; restricted
                                              shares continue to vest

         - Unit sold by Huttig                Receive cash subaccount balance in cash; all
                                              restricted shares become fully vested

         - Retirement(1)/death/disability       Receive cash subaccount balance in cash; all
                                              restricted shares become fully vested

         - Unit spun off                      No payout; cash subaccount balance continued
                                              with spun off company; all restricted shares
                                              become fully vested
</TABLE>
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(1)  Retirement is defined as normal retirement - age 65

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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

<S>                                           <C>
         - Huttig acquired                    Receive cash subaccount balance in cash; all
                                              restricted shares become fully vested

         - Transfer to another business unit  Cash subaccount balance transfers with
                                              executive; restricted shares continue to vest
</TABLE>

                  b. Acceleration of Distribution. The Participant's entire cash
         subaccount balance will become payable and his or her restricted stock
         will fully vest upon normal retirement (age 65), death, or disability,
         or a change-in-control. (The Committee will retain the discretion to
         pay the entire account balance upon early retirement.).

                  c. Definition of Change in Control. For purposes of the Plan,
         the term "change in control" means (i) the first purchase of shares
         pursuant to a tender offer or exchange offer (other than a tender offer
         or exchange offer by the Company) for all or part of the Company's
         Common Stock or any securities convertible into such Common Stock, (ii)
         the receipt by the Company of a Schedule 13D or other advice indicating
         that a person is the "beneficial owner" (as that term is defined in
         Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
         "Exchange Act"), of 20% or more of the Company's Common Stock
         calculated as provided in paragraph (d) of said Rule 13d-3, (iii) the
         date of approval by stockholders of the Company of an agreement
         providing for any consolidation or merger of the Company in which the
         Company will not be the continuing or surviving corporation or pursuant
         to which shares of Common Stock of the Company would be converted into
         cash, securities or other property, other than a merger of the Company
         in which the holders of Common Stock of the Company immediately prior
         to the merger would have the same proportion of ownership of Common
         Stock of the surviving corporation immediately after the merger, (iv)
         the date of the approval by stockholders of the Company of any sale,
         lease, exchange or other transfer (in one transaction or a series of
         related transactions) of all or substantially all the assets of the
         Company or (v) the adoption of any plan or proposal for the liquidation
         (but not a partial liquidation) or dissolution of the Company or (vi)
         individuals who, as of the Effective Date, constituted the Board of
         Directors of the Company (the "Board") generally and as of the date
         hereof (the "Incumbent Board") cease for any reason to constitute at
         least a majority of the Board, provided that any person becoming a
         director subsequent to the date hereof whose election, or nomination
         for election by the Company's stockholders, was approved by a vote of
         at least three-quarters of the directors comprising the Incumbent Board
         (other than an election or nomination of an individual whose initial
         assumption of office is in connection with an actual or threatened
         election contest relating to the election of the Directors of Company,
         as such terms are used in Rule 14a-11 of Regulation 14A promulgated
         under the Exchange Act) shall be, for purposes of this Plan, considered
         as though such person were a member of the Incumbent Board.

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                  d. Tax Gross-Up. If it is determined that any payment of an
         account by the Company to a Participant by reason of a change-in-
         control is subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the
         Code, the Company shall make additional cash payments to the
         Participant such that after payment of all taxes including any excise
         tax imposed on such payments, the Participant will retain an amount
         equal to the excise tax on all the payments.

9.       Plan Amendment and Termination.

         The Board of Directors may modify, suspend or terminate the Plan at any
time.

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