She has written and contributed to several publications, including volume five of the New Orleans Architecture series, titled The Esplanade Ridge (1977) and The National Trust Guide to Savannah (1997).
Toledano was born in New Orleans, Louisiana,[1] in 1939, to Dr. Thomas Allen Bunkley and Phylis Gewin, the first of their two children.
[1] Her father studied at Tulane University medical school, living in Richardson Memorial Hall.
[3] After obtaining an undergraduate degree at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in 1960, for which she had been studying art history in Spain, she spent her junior year at the Complutense University of Madrid.
[4] Also in 1978, she was awarded the Society of Architectural Historians' Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award for New Orleans Architecture: The Esplanade Ridge, volume V, which she co-authored with Mary Louise Christovich, Sally Kittredge Evans and Betsy Swanson.