Some Famous Local Mansions Are For Sale

NEW ADDRESSES: A number of Seattle's well known estates are changing hands. Most notable among them is the McCone-Pigott mansion Norcliffe in The Highlands, the site of numerous charity benefits.

The asking price: $6.5 million.

The 21,000-square-foot home overlooking the water was one of the residences of John and Theiline Pigott McCone, now both deceased.

The 32-room, seven-bedroom mansion is being sold for estate purposes. The McCones also owned a second home in Pebble Beach, Calif.

ALSO FOR SALE: The late Katherine and Cebert Baillargeon's Capitol Hill home is for sale. The Tudor-style home has "one of the best interiors in the city," according to Dillis Knapp, a real estate agent who has shown the house.

The house features carved plaster ceilings and ornate carved wood in the Jacobean style. The house is in need of repair.

Mrs. Baillargeon died in June. Her husband died in 1964. The family founded Seattle Trust and Savings Bank.

SOLD AS A SUMMER HOME: The former John Eddy estate at 1117 Boylston Ave. N. is now the summer home for the owner of a California-based corporation, CSY Investments.

The owner has other homes in Hong Kong and Paris and uses the Seattle property, which features a tennis court, gardens and gazebo and view of Lake Union, during the month of August.

However, this year he elected not to come to town and the home may be leased. At one point, the rental rate requested was $3,500 monthly.

The home, which sold recently for $3 million, has 10,400 square feet, seven bedrooms and five baths.

The home changed hands a number of times during the last 12 years - the price ranging from $350,000, which the surviving Eddy family members received in 1979, to $900,000 a small religious sect paid in 1981 as part of a lawsuit between it and its former manager.

RACE BOUND: Adjusters International president Bob Lucurell joins a number of local businessmen this weekend in Laguna Seca, Calif., for the Monterey Historics, called the biggest race of historical race cars in the country.

This weekend he's entered in a series of preliminaries, before going on to compete the following weekend in the main event.

Lucurell drives an Allard. Does he win?

"Let's just say I'm having fun."

THEN THERE IS BELLEVUE: At a recent charity luncheon at the Bellevue Athletic Club one guest was in hot pursuit of coat-check when a woman directed her to an unattended room filled with coats.

When the woman looked unsure, her hostess assured her: "It will be safe there. This is Bellevue."

SOTHEBY'S RETURNS: The famed Sotheby's auction house will be doing the Pilchuck Glass School auction Oct. 26 at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers. This will be the second time Sotheby's will do an auction in Seattle. The first was an Arabian horse auction in July.

"It's quite a coup for us," said Sharon Meyer, director of development. Gretchen Boeing Clough is the auction chairwoman.

SETTLING IN: Hans and Lisa Thulin, owners of the West Coast Hotel chain, have settled into Madison Park, moving here from Belgium. The Thulins are from Sweden and have two children 5 and 3. The oldest will attend Bush School this fall.

Among the hotels they either own or manage is the Benson Hotel in Portland.

THE MET WANTS YOU: Several New York City-based cable companies and the Metropolitan Opera are looking for "opera mad socialites" in major cities across the country, including Seattle, to host dinners to benefit their local opera companies.

While the idea is in the preliminary stages, the group hopes to create a market for broadcasting pay-for-view cultural events by encouraging opera support in general. For more information, call 464-2254.

SPEAKING OF OPERA: This from a Seattle Opera news release regarding "The Ring:" "Patrons who are likely to be frightened or made uncomfortable by the fire and heat are advised not to buy seating near the front in an orchestra section."

The Ring, now playing at the Opera House, features "the largest fire ever to appear on an indoor stage."

The special effects are done by Tassilo Baur, a Tacoma native. Fire was introduced in the 1985 production and requires costumes to be flame retardant, and stage and production staff to complete fire-fighting training.

And you thought the opera was only about singing. Tickets, 389-7676.

About Town by Nancy Bartley appears Sunday and Monday in the Scene section of The Times.