BRUNSWICK

Although Bowdoin College will retain use of the third floor of Brunswick’s eventual new town hall for 10 years, the McLellan name will go elsewhere.

The McLellan Building at 85 Union St. will become “the new town hall” next year when Brunswick municipal officials move in. Currently, Bowdoin uses it as a center for the creative arts and some administrative offices.

College officials have yet to decide which structure will bear the name of J. Houghton McLellan Jr., a longtime New England insurance magnate and 1920 Bowdoin graduate.

McLellan, a Bath native, bequeathed more than $8 million to Bowdoin upon his death in 1989, stipulating that the money be used to fund scholarships: one in the name of his cousin, Emma McLellan Duncan; and two in memory of longtime Bowdoin chemistry professors Marshall Perley Cram and Philip Meserve.

The 35,000-square-foot, three-story building was completed in 1999 at the rear of what then was the former Maine Street Station property.

The town acquired it through a trade with the college. In return, Bowdoin received the former Longfellow School, which currently is being renovated to become the college’s new center for visual and performance arts.

When Brunswick takes over the first and second floors in late 2014, the building will need several hundred thousand dollars of renovation to make it ready for municipal use.

A public meeting room will have to be outfitted with broadcasting equipment from TV3, Brunswick’s local cable station. Other upgrades and reconfigurations are being considered by the McLellan Building Renovation Committee, which is scheduled to meet again today at 3:30 p.m. in the Hawthorne Building on Federal Street.

Committee members include Town Councilors David Watson, Gerald Favreau and Margo Knight, who have spent two weeks interviewing potential construction managers and architects for the job. They plan to make a recommendation at the council’s July 29 meeting.