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The expected negative, printed as tested: no armory has stood at Walkerton in any record reached — not in the Indiana National Guard's community and armory listings, not in the county histories, not in the town's building record as banked. The Guard's roofs nearest this ground stand where its companies have always stood. At South Bend, the armory at 2402 East Rose Street — also styled the CPT Lyle J. Thompson U.S. Army Reserve Center — stood vacant almost four years before its present renovation: preconstruction from October 2025, work from December 2025, completion expected March 2026, as the temporary home of 130 soldiers of an Indiana Army National Guard engineer company. The Armed Forces Reserve Center at 1901 South Kemble Avenue serves the same city, and the next armory west stands at La Porte, 2391 West State Road 2. The succession of armory sites for this ground is therefore a succession of other towns' buildings, in order: none at Walkerton, in any period; South Bend's, from the Legion years to the Rose Street renovation now under way. The men of this township have always drilled under a roof in the county seat, and the record reached gives no sign that was ever otherwise.
Sources: Indiana National Guard armory and community listings (in.gov, read November 2026); F.H. Paschen project record, South Bend Armory renovation, 2402 E. Rose Street (published 19 January 2026); Armed Forces Reserve Center, South Bend, 1901 S. Kemble Avenue; La Porte Armory, 2391 W. State Road 2.