It is named after banker, real estate, and streetcar developer Joel Hurt.

[1] The park and its fountain were funded in part by the Woodruff Foundation and were designed by the noted landscape architect William C.

It plays for twenty minutes at a time, giving numerous changes of pattern and color before it repeats its rainbow symphony.

It was built at a cost of seventeen hundred dollars, and designed by Atlanta sculptor Julian Harris and presented to the city through the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Foundation.

[4]The original fountain is still present in the park with a new and improved light show, post-renovations by Atlanta landscape architecture firm HGOR and partners.