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1928 – November 2026
Documented negative, at boundary size: no armory has ever stood in Clay or Harris township. The Indiana National Guard's community and armory listings, and the State Armory Board's minutes of 8 January 2025, name armories and readiness centres by city across the state; no Granger, Clay Township or Harris Township site appears in any of them, and the county's succession is wholly inside South Bend, south of the river. In order: the 1928 armory at 727 South Eddy Street, South Bend — built as the city's National Guard armory and shooting range, later the Newman Recreation Center and a city storage building, and today The Armory, an event venue whose 1928 fabric, munitions doors and drill-hall ballroom survive in the restoration; and the South Bend armory on East Rose Street (2402 East Rose Street, the former CPT Lyle J. Thompson U.S. Army Reserve Center), which the Armory Board's January 2025 minutes record the Guard acquiring from the Army Reserve, a couple of miles from the then-current armory, with renovation works begun in late 2025 to house an Indiana Guard engineer company of about 130 soldiers. Both sites are South Bend's, printed here at boundary size because the audit asked the question of this ground and the answer belongs on this ground's record: the townships' soldiers have always drilled in the city.
From the Indiana National Guard's “in your community” armory listings, the Indiana State Armory Board minutes of 8 January 2025 (secure.in.gov), the published restoration record of 727 South Eddy Street, and the 2025–26 renovation reporting for 2402 East Rose Street. Searches shown: the Guard's listings read whole for any Clay/Harris/Granger site — none listed.