Hi Bill,
Check out The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay (1625 - 1725) by Abbott Lowell Cummings and published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
ISBN 0-674-31681-9.

This is probably the most authoritative and well illustrated book that will match your needs.

Regards

Ken Hume
http://www.kfhume.freeserve.co.uk

Looking back to see the way ahead !