  We present vacuum spacetime solutions of first order gravity, which are
described by the exterior Schwarzschild geometry in one region and by
degenerate tetrads in the other. The invertible and noninvertible phases of the
tetrad meet at an intermediate boundary across which the components of the
metric, affine connection and field-strength are all continuous. Within the
degenerate spacetime region, the noninvertibility of the tetrad leads to
nonvanishing torsion. In contrast to the Schwarzschild spacetime which is the
unique spherically symmetric solution of Einsteinian gravity, all the
field-strength components associated with these vacuum geometries remain finite
everywhere.
