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                                                                    Exhibit 24.1


                                 POWER OF ATTORNEY


               KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of
     Falcon Building Products, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
     which is about to file an Annual Report on Form 10-K with the Securities
     and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1934,
     as amended, hereby constitutes and appoints Sam A. Cottone, his true and
     lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power and all capacities, to
     sign the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and any or all amendments
     thereto, and any other documents in connection therewith, to be filed with
     the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact
     and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
     thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as
     fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby
     ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his
     substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
     hereof.

            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand and
     seal as of the 26th day of March, 1998.
     
     
     
                                   /s/  Charles J. Philippin
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                                   Charles J. Philippin                    
                                        Director

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                                 POWER OF ATTORNEY


               KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned  director of
     Falcon Building Products, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
     which is about to file an Annual Report on Form 10-K with the Securities
     and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1934,
     as amended, hereby constitutes and appoints Sam A. Cottone, his true and
     lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power and all capacities, to
     sign the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and any or all amendments
     thereto, and any other documents in connection therewith, to be filed with
     the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact
     and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
     thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as
     fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby
     ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his
     substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
     hereof.

            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand and
     seal as of the 26th day of March, 1998.


     
                                   /s/  Christopher J. Stadler
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                                   Christopher J. Stadler          
                                   Director



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                                 POWER OF ATTORNEY


               KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned  director of
     Falcon Building Products, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
     which is about to file an Annual Report on Form 10-K with the Securities
     and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1934,
     as amended, hereby constitutes and appoints Sam A. Cottone, his true and
     lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power and all capacities, to
     sign the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and any or all amendments
     thereto, and any other documents in connection therewith, to be filed with
     the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact
     and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
     thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as
     fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby
     ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his
     substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
     hereof.

            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand and
     seal as of the 26th day of March, 1998.
     
     
     
                                   /s/  Christopher J. O'Brien
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                                   Christopher J.O'Brien                   
                                       Director