Ellisville is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States within Greater St. Louis. It is a western outer-ring suburb of St. Louis. The population was 9,985 at the 2020 census.

In 2009, Money magazine ranked Ellisville #25 on the annual Best Places to Live in America list. The city is moreover currently house to an EPA Superfund site.

Ellisville was settled by Captain James Harvey Ferris of Kentucky previously 1837. He brought slaves behind him next he decided his property south of Manchester and west of Kiefer Creek Road, and it was here the house that became known as the “Ellis House” was constructed. The bricks used for construction of the house were handmade by the slaves; it was pseudonym the “Brick Place” for this reason.

Captain Ferris sold the house to Vespasian Ellis, a newspaper editor in St. Louis. The Old School Democrat, the Native American Bulletin, the Washington Temperance Paper, and The Native American were in the course of Ellis’ work. In 1842, Ellis became the United States consul to Venezuela. He ran several ads in the Native American Bulletin in an effort to sell his Ellisville farm. As a result, it was sold to William A. Hereford in 1842 or 1843. Hereford was a Virginian and is qualified with the naming of Ellisville after his former pronounce office in Ellisville, Virginia. Hereford opened the first make known office here upon May 2, 1843. Some take on that the Ellis House itself actually served as the publicize office for a time. All historical accounts of the Place give the thesame history, but none state straightforwardly whether the town was named for Vespasian Ellis or by William Hereford for his Virginia make known office.