The armories: a succession that stands in South Bend, not here

Item 4 — the armories as a succession — tested negative for this town

No armory has stood in New Carlisle in the record reached, and the county's armory succession can be told whole without this town appearing in it. The test is the same record as the Guard test, plus the state's armory-board record: the Indiana National Guard's community listing names an armory for city after city in the state — Fort Wayne, Columbus, Lafayette, Hartford City, Angola, Gary, Terre Haute, New Albany, Elwood and more — and names none for New Carlisle. The county's succession is South Bend's. Its present Guard armory stands at 1901 S. Kemble Avenue, on ground the City of South Bend itself conveyed for the purpose: the city's Ordinance No. 4561-63 (passed 11 March 1963) authorized donation of land to aid in erecting an armory, reciting that reconstruction of the Sample Street Bridge required the State Armory to remove from its existing site and that the city had agreed to grant land for a new armory site along Kemble Avenue. A second South Bend facility now stands beside that succession: the armory at 2402 E. Rose Street, also known as the CPT Lyle J. Thompson USARC, vacant for almost four years and under renovation in 2025–26 as a temporary home for 130 soldiers of an Indiana Army National Guard engineering company; the State Armory Board's minutes of 8 January 2025 separately record the expected acquisition of a South Bend Readiness Center from the Army Reserve, a couple of miles from the then-current armory. Three South Bend seats in one generation of records — and, for Olive Township, the negative at full strength: drilled in no armory of its own, the township's Guard story is the Kemble Avenue armory's, fourteen miles east. This article prints the negative as the item's answer; there is no New Carlisle armory chapter to write.

Sources:

1. Military Department of Indiana, "Indiana National Guard in Your Community" (in.gov), read whole — armory list contains no New Carlisle armory; South Bend armory at 1901 S. Kemble Ave.
2. City of South Bend, Ordinance No. 4561-63 (11–12 March 1963), donation of the Kemble Avenue land for erection of an armory, Sample Street Bridge removal recitals — city document record.
3. F.H. Paschen project report, 19 January 2026 — renovation of the South Bend Armory, 2402 E. Rose St. (CPT Lyle J. Thompson USARC), temporary home of an Indiana Army National Guard engineering company (130 soldiers).
4. Indiana State Armory Board minutes, 8 January 2025 — South Bend Readiness Center acquisition from the Army Reserve.