The Camden Palace was a nightclub in Camden, London, at the bottom of Camden High Street close to Mornington Crescent tube station. The building was originally the Camden Theatre, which was one of the largest theatres in London outside the West End, with a capacity of 3,000. It was designed by the prolific theatre architect William Sprague and opened in December 1900 by Ellen Terry, then the most celebrated actress in England, who had lived in nearby Stanhope Street as a child. A local newspaper called the St Pancras Gazette commented as follows in a review of the Palace Theatre's production of an opera called The Geisha in 1901: