The Rose Street nameplate: a real name, on the wrong building

2026

The flag: the Military section prints the contractor F.H. Paschen's name for the renovated armory at 2402 East Rose Street — "the CPT Lyle J. Thompson USARC" — as the contractor's statement only, unresolved, because no second source repeats it for that building. This pass worked the name to ground. It does not promote. It resolves, and the resolution is that the contractor's page applies a real name to the wrong building.

Where the name belongs: the Lyle J. Thompson U.S. Army Reserve Center stands at 3401 Boland Drive, South Bend — the address the federal record itself uses for this city's Army Reserve center. The 88th Readiness Division's facilities contract of 30 January 2026 (Military Installation Contracting Command, Fort McCoy, award W911SA26PA060) lists the South Bend facility, code IN033, at 3401 Boland Drive; the Department of Veterans Affairs places the South Bend Vet Center's satellite at the 766th Transportation Battalion, 3401 Boland Drive; and the name "Lyle J Thompson USARC" is carried at that Boland Drive address in directory records of long standing. Against that, the name's appearance at 2402 East Rose Street rests on the contractor's single project page, published 19 January 2026, repeated only by outlets crediting the contractor; the Military Department of Indiana's own listings carry the Rose Street building simply as the South Bend Armory, which is also how the building stands in the Military section. The disposition for assembly: the nameplate sentence keeps its one-source size and gains the correction — the CPT Lyle J. Thompson USARC is the Army Reserve center on Boland Drive, and the contractor's application of the name to the Rose Street armory is uncorroborated and appears conflated with it. Which engineer company will occupy the Rose Street building while its own station is rebuilt remains unnamed in every source reached, the contractor's page included, and it stays unnamed here.

Sources:

1. 88th Readiness Division refuse contract IN075 (MICC Fort McCoy, award W911SA26PA060, 30 January 2026) — facility IN033 listed at 3401 Boland Drive, South Bend.
2. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, South Bend Vet Center — its satellite at the 766th Transportation Battalion, 3401 Boland Drive, South Bend.
3. Long-standing directory listings for "Lyle J Thompson USARC," 3401 Boland Drive, South Bend (Yellow Pages; Manta; iBegin).
4. F.H. Paschen, project page for the South Bend armory renovation (published 19 January 2026) — the sole source applying the Thompson name to 2402 East Rose Street; Military Department of Indiana armory listings (the building carried as the South Bend Armory).