There are two houses in the Berkshires , a brownstone in Chelsea , a farm in Pennsylvania and the rest in North Carolina : five houses in Seaboard , the tiny town where the Long family settled in 1676 and where Long is undertaking an elaborate program of what Rudnick calls '' rural renewal '' ; a historic house in coastal Rose Bay and another two in Manteo , on the Outer Banks , where Long is the production designer for '' The Lost Colony , '' an annual summer pageant about the first American settlers .