It was erected in Washington Park in honor of the former Oregon judge Loyal B. Stearns.

The fountain, installed at 2432 West Burnside Street on the northeastern corner of Washington Park,[2] was designed by A. E. Doyle and Associates.

It was funded by a $5,000 bequest gifted to the City of Portland by attorney, jurist and politician Loyal B. Stearns for a drinking fountain on upper West Burnside Street.

[1] The memorial consists of a slightly curved Cold Springs Rainbow granite wall with three chrome-plated brass drinking fountains at varying levels in the front, plus a trough in the rear.

[1] The city's Bureau of Planning categorized it as "Rank II" in its "Historic Resource Inventory (HRI) Properties in Public Ownership", a survey project completed in 1984.