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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, 1999.



                                        /s/  Charles J. Philippin
                                        -------------------------
                                        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, 1999.



                                        /s/  Christopher J. Stadler
                                        ---------------------------
                                        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, 1999.



                                        /s/  Christopher J. O'Brien
                                        ---------------------------
                                        Christopher J. O'Brien
                                             Director